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13. May 2011

Sydkorea og Danmark danner grøn vækstalliance

green energy, InFocus, renewable energy, South Korea

Af Flemming Ytzen, Journalist, Politiken og Associate Senior Fellow ved NIAS For 60 år siden sendte Danmark et hospitalsskib til Den Koreanske Halvø for at hjælpe krigsofre. Her i 2011 kvitterer Korea med at gøre Danmark til partner i et visionært samarbejde om grøn vækst. Det kan betyde nye muligheder for en lang række danske […]

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3. May 2011

Osama bin Laden og Ayman al-Zawahiri i Afghanistan og Pakistan

Afghanistan, InFocus, Pakistan, terror, terrorism

De to terrorister, som jeg vil fokusere på, er Osama bin Laden (født 10. Marts 1957 i Jiddah i Saudi Arabien, død 2. maj 2011) og i mindre omfang Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri (født 19. Juni 1951 i Cairo i Egypten). Fælles for disse to terrorister er, at de har opholdt sig meget længe uden for […]

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11. Apr 2011

Thailand’s Political Conflict – A Jasmine Revolution? by Christian Stampe Jensen

InFocus

The revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and the political unrest that it has sparked in neighbouring countries throughout the Middle East has raised the question how these events influence popular uprisings and struggles for democracy in other parts of the world. In Thailand, political unrest and conflict between ‘Red Shirts’ and ‘Yellow Shirts’ have been […]

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29. Mar 2011

Away from home when disaster strikes : Diary from a UK-based Japanese community after the Tohoku catastrophe

earthquake, InFocus, Japan, tsunami

Diary from a UK-based Japanese community after the Tohoku catastrophe

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13. Mar 2011

The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake: Unmitigated disaster followed by a New Deal-type reconstruction?

earthquake, InFocus, Japan, tsunami

Four moving tectonic plates crowd each other in the eastern vicinity of Japan, and on Friday 11 March at 2:45 in the afternoon Japan Standard Time, pressure that had built up between two of them for years, perhaps centuries, was suddenly released, causing one to slip under the other. The ocean above this rising sea floor also rose, and these displaced masses of water shortly after inundated the northeastern coats of Japan.

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10. Mar 2011

The Fourteenth Dalai Lama’s Retirement from Politics

Buddhism, democracy, InFocus, Tibet

Today, the 10th
of March 2011, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama announced that he will transfer his
formal authority to the leader that the exile-Tibetans chose in the upcoming
elections for a Tibetan Prime Minister-in-Exile.

 

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2. Mar 2011

Are the “flower revolutions” in the Middle East and North Africa endangering stability in China? by Christian Göbel

China, democracy, InFocus

These are fascinating
times, as the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East might well be the
beginning of a “Fourth Wave” of Democracy. The late political scientist Samuel
Huntington once likened clustered incidences of democratizations to “waves”. After
the apparent ebbing out of the “Third Wave”, which between 1974 and the early
1990s swept over Southern Europe, Latin America, Asia and Eastern Europe, the
time might have come for another democratic push. As a political scientist
studying stability and instability of authoritarian regimes, I am extremely

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8. Feb 2011

Thai politics costing lives. Again.

cambodia, InFocus, politics, Thailand

Thai politics have been somewhat baffling the past two weeks. So has Cambodian politics. And as always when the two Kingdoms clash and create irrational political atmospheres, people have suffered. In this case, several people have died. But let’s start with the beginning:

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20. Jan 2011

Still Repairing Chinese-Japanese Relations by Asger Røjle Christensen

China, InFocus, Japan, nationalism

Yes, there has been a serious crisis
recently between China and Japan.

The collision between a Chinese
fishing trawler and a Japanese coastguard patrol boat close to the disputed
islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, prompted both countries
to take drastic measures which resulted in China canceling a number of
high-level ministerial meetings between the two countries. But no, this doesn’t
imply that the region is on the brink of open confrontation. It doesn’t disturb
the general trend towards a more pragmatic cooperative attitude from both
sides.

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18. Jan 2011

Controversial Chinese activist receives the Simone de Beauvoir prize for Women’s freedom

InFocus

On January 11th, in Paris, the Simone de Beauvoir prize for Women’s freedom 2010 was awarded to two Chinese women, GUO Jianmei 郭健梅, a lawyer in Beijing and Prof. AI Xiaoming 艾晓明 from Sun Zhongshan University (Canton). The Simone de Beauvoir Prize is an international human rights prize for women’s freedom, awarded since 2008 to […]

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