Monthly Mind

Global warming is estimated to cost more than $3,000 per second, according to a 2009 study by the Global Humanitarian Forum[1]. While political leaders may be timid when it comes to taking responsibility and defending our nature, preferring to prioritise what they see as the interests of their own people to those of the world’s population, it will soon become — if it is not yet the case — in their economic interest to act for the environment.

You’re probably wondering why the EU has invested in those complicated satellite navigation systems and on cyber security. You may be asking yourselves why Russia and China are developing anti-satellite systems that can shut down or disable satellites. Or why, in late 2020, NATO set up a new space command centre in Germany to counter cyber-threats. The answer is that the space market is highly dynamic, emerging sector, which will soon prove to be key for economics, defence and politics.

The United Kingdom is due to withdraw from the European Union in March 2019. But why?

The Catalan Crisis is a matter of national identity. To be more specific, the crisis started with the wish of having the Catalan identity recognized as unique and indisputable by the Spanish central government in Madrid.

In the recent history of the European project, few have been the upheavals of such magnitude as the sovereign debt crisis.

In the French presidential campaign of 2017, Macron’s candidacy came across as a real surprise

New South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, is at the center of a major North Korean diplomatic policy shift. Talks on the peninsula have the potential to change the political fault lines of the world’s largest nuclear powers.

The Syrian quagmire is finally nearing a certain status quo. ISIS has been stripped-off its quasi-state form and forced back to operate as a traditional insurgency.

While many may be focused on the recent plunge of the U.S. Stock Market, the latest Brexit talks, or Angela Merkel’s attempts to form a coalition, the city of Cape Town, South Africa, is just weeks away from experiencing an extreme water shortage.

This year the Rome Statute that established the International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrates its 20th birthday. It’s time to draw a conclusion from 20 years of permanent international judiciary.