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Introduction: Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific

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Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific

Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science ((APESS,volume 5))

Abstract

The processes of globalization and global environmental change have created increasing socioeconomic imbalances among continents, nations and social classes within the countries. Twenty-five years ago, with the end of the Cold War, the bipolar division of the world has been overcome and in several parts of the world regional cooperation among developing countries has intensified. Multiple mechanisms are still subordinating developing countries (hinterlands) and social groups to the hegemonic necessities of corporate capitalism, and its dominant countries.

Prof. Dr. Úrsula Oswald Spring, full-time Professor/Researcher at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) in the Regional Multidisciplinary Research Center (CRIM); co-convenor, IPRA’s Ecology and Commission (2012-2016); Email: uoswald@gmail.com.

PD Dr. Hans Günter Brauch, chairman, Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), since 1987; co-convenor, IPRA’s Ecology and Commission (2012-2016), Mosbach, Germany; Email: brauch@afes-press.de.

Dr. Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald; researcher, Regional Multidisciplinary Research Center (CRIM); president of AMECIDER Mexico; Email: sesohi@hotmail.com.

Juliet Bennett, PhD candidate, University of Sydney; co-convenor, IPRA’s Ecology and Commission (2014-2016); Email: juliet.bennett@sydney.edu.au.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The goal of the NDB is to “mobilize resources for infrastructure and sustainable development projects in BRICS and other emerging economies and developing countries” (Agreement on the New Development Bank, Fortaleza, July 15, 2015), in: Government of Brazil. 15 July 2014; Wall Street Journal, 16 July 2015. NDB headquarter is in Shanghai, China and each of the five participants holds an equal number of shares with equal voting rights. There is no veto right. The proposal is to pay to the NDB directly and during the next seven years 20 % of half up to one million of shares, with a value of USD 100,000 each of them.

  2. 2.

    ‘Verselbständigung’ means a way back to a paradigm dominated by nation state, requirements. This includes to introduce strong borders controls, limit foreign workers, control on national currency, taxes on imports, high subsidies for local products, etc.; in synthesis a step back from open global economy and policy to a nation state controlled political economy.

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    Not understood in the sense of Buzan/Wæver (2003), who used the same concept, but did not review the former conceptualizations.

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  1. Regional Multidisciplinary Research Center (CRIM), National University of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Úrsula Oswald Spring

  2. Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), Mosbach, Germany

    Hans Günter Brauch

  3. Regional Multidisciplinary Research Center (CRIM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald

  4. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Juliet Bennett

  5. Gender and Equity, IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission, London, UK

    Úrsula Oswald Spring, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald & Juliet Bennett

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  1. Center for Multidisciplinary Stud.(CRIM), National University of Mexico (UNAM) Center for Multidisciplinary Stud.(CRIM), Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

    Úrsula Oswald Spring

  2. und Europäische Sicherheitspolitik, AFES-PRESS, AG Friedensforschung, Mosbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

    Hans Günter Brauch

  3. Center for Multidisciplinary Stud.(CRIM), Nat. Autonomous Univ. of Mexico (UNAM), Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Serrena Eréndira Serrano Oswald

  4. Conflict Studies, Mackie Bldg K01 Rm 115, Univ of Sydney, Ctr for Peace & Conflict Studies, Mackie Bldg K01 Rm 115, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Juliet Bennett

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Oswald Spring, Ú., Brauch, H.G., Serrano Oswald, S.E., Bennett, J. (2016). Introduction: Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific. In: Oswald Spring, Ú., Brauch, H., Serrano Oswald, S., Bennett, J. (eds) Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30560-8_1

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