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The dramatic rise of the tension between the United States and Iran that for a few days has sparked the possibility of a generalized conflict in the region has marked the beginning of the year. The assassination of General Qassem  Suleimani  by means of a  drone attack has also revealed Trump administration’s lack of expertise and long-term strategy, as discussed by Fred  Kaplan in Slate<\/em><\/a> where he points out the absence of high-ranking qualified personnel in Donald Trump’s staff. Furthermore, the American president continues his bullying politics characterized by wrong strategies according to the analysis of Paul Krugman in The New York Times<\/em><\/a>. It is also worth noting that the actions carried out by the US under Trump’s presidency, especially those undertaken the last few month, have led the Iranian population (which had been for a long-time divided) to strongly support a government weakened by the protests of the last few weeks, as explained in Foreign<\/em><\/a> Policy<\/em><\/a>. Another battle that the US president is carrying out is the fierce competition with China for world hegemony and Evan Osnos wonders in The New Yorker<\/a> <\/em> who will emerge victorious and therefore shape the 21st century. In Foreign<\/em><\/a> Affairs<\/em><\/a> Fareed  Zakaria warns of the danger that would entail repeating the same mistakes made during the Cold war against the Soviet Union, since exaggerating the real Soviet threat had important and durable consequences both for the USA and the rest of the world. Latin America is another region of the world destabilized by popular riots caused by the increasing social and economic inequality. The journal Open Democracy<\/em><\/a> reviews in a long article the events of 2019 in Haiti, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia and tries to foresee how they could develop in 2020 while stressing that the discomfort of the middle classes seeking out to maintain their status merges with to that of the popular classes that are getting poorer. Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil  is also a source of concern. According to Bruno Meyerfeld in the newspaper Le Monde<\/em><\/a>, it would be a mistake to consider the Brazilian president as a simple product of a tropical fever passing outburst, as Bolsonaro has achieved to unite around his presidency some of the most powerful circles of influence in Brazil that support him despite the scandals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The negotiations to confirm Pedro S\u00e1nchez as Prime Minister and to form the new Spanish cabinet have focused the attention of Spanish politics for the last few weeks. In El Pa\u00eds<\/em><\/a>, Josep Ramoneda stresses that the parties supporting the new government have had the courage to break the binary scheme and to address a change of framework, which is the only way to solve conflicts when they become chronic. That happened in a political context where the three right-wing opposition parties have not admitted their defeat and have repeatedly reported the new government as illegitimate. As Arsenio  Escolar points out in El Diario<\/em><\/a> this reveals a serious democratic deficit and a refusal to homologate to the standard of the European right that does not question the electoral results neither delegitimizes those thinking differently, and knows how to exercise a tough but responsible opposition. Jos\u00e9 Antonio Mart\u00edn Pall\u00edn reports in the journal CTXT<\/a><\/em> the blow delivered to the Spanish justice by the European Court of Justice in the case of Oriol Junqueras and suggests that perhaps Spanish judges are not as European nor as democratic as they say insofar as they seem to feel uncomfortable with the European spaces of freedom, justice and security. As regards European policy, the editors of the journal Politico<\/em><\/a> analyse what will be the most important challenges the European Union will face in 2020. They emphasize that in the relations between Europe and China, protectionism will cease to be a forbidden word in the EU’s political decision-making. They warn the EU might have to cope with a new financial crisis due to the strong pressures exerted on the world financial system’s tectonic plates, although this time the safeguards built after the 2008 crisis might be able to ensure a better response. Finally, they also point out the effective realization of Brexit and the subsequent commercial negotiations that are foreseen long and very complex. In this context, the restoration of government to Northern Ireland has a major relevance after three years of paralysis stresses Kathy Hayward in The <\/em><\/a>Guardian<\/a><\/em>. This is an important turning point to tackle the challenges that Northern Ireland will have to face over the next decade. Finally, the political evolution in the Russian Federation also requires attention. President Vladimir Putin has announced important changes in the Constitution that are likely to modify the power structure.\u202fIn an article in Politico<\/em><\/a>, Alec  Kuhn  believes that the proposed changes are no more than the instrument of a transition that could allow the current president to continue exercising power from another institutional area yet to be defined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journal Foreign<\/em> Affairs<\/em> devotes a special issue on the current state of capitalism and on the neoliberal policies that have led to a dramatic growth of inequalities that explain a great part of riots and demonstrations occurring around the world. In his article, Branko<\/a> Milanovi\u0107<\/a> argues that the actual battle lays within capitalism itself, between two opposing models. On the one hand, the capitalism of Western European countries and North America, where a meritocratic, liberal form prevails and on the other, the model of State-led capitalism as it is the case in China and Russia, which privileges a high economic growth and limits individual political and civic rights. In spite of its hegemony, Fahnbulleh<\/a> Miatta<\/a> believes capitalism is in crisis and that a return to the traditional social democratic agenda is not enough to solve the situation. First, because this agenda would clash with the widespread demand in the developed economies for a more local and collective control of resources. Second, the social democratic model did not consider the most important challenge of our times, i.e. the climate emergency that increasingly deepens the existing inequalities. Actually, those who have least contributed to the climate crisis are those who uttermost suffer the consequences and at the same time these very same groups and communities have been historically marginalised and exploited. To redress the situation,  Abhijit  V. Banerjeeand and this year Nobel Prize in economics, Esther Duflo<\/a> bet on increasing the standard of living with available resources, investing in education and healthcare, improving the functioning of the courts and banks and building more habitable cities to ensure that growth improves the wellbeing of the poor. Finally, in Open<\/em><\/a> Democracy<\/em><\/a>, Natalia Quiroga proposes to revive from a feminist economy those ways to sustain life allowing us to think from other points of view how to defend community, land control, justice and common politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate change is here to stay and the initiatives looking to reduce its impact on life and lifestyles will demand a sustained collective effort. In The New Yorker<\/a><\/em>, Alice Hill  and Leonardo Mart\u00ednez-D\u00edaz suggest that both government and private agents will have to rethink where and how infrastructures are built, how to use climate and meteorological data and how to mobilize the financial resources needed to compensate for possible losses. In Le <\/em><\/a>Monde<\/em><\/a> diplomatique<\/em><\/a> Anne-C\u00e9cile Robert raises another debate regarding the instrumentalization of the environmental cause by the defenders of green capitalism. Following the poor results of the COP25 summit, G\u00e9rard Horny considers in the journal Slate<\/em><\/a> that the legitimate criticisms addressed to governments should be qualified insofar as not all governments are equal, and progress in the fight against climate emergency is faster in democratic countries. Consequently, the energy transition must also entail a new conception of democracy that will bring a change to the strategies of development for economic growth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several authors also raise the repercussions of the climatic change on the new technologies as well as the responsibility of the latter regarding the global warming. Kevin Lozano warns from The New <\/em><\/a>Republic<\/em><\/a> that climate emergency demands the launching of a new green Internet to ease its effects. He is aware that this new Internet could maybe be slower but at the same time one of its most positive aspects would be the Internet would be geared towards citizens and more heterogeneous. Another challenge posed by new technologies are the ethical implications of their use, as Sara White points out in Slate<\/a><\/em>. By using the example of 3D technology to print authentic copies of human bones, she considers that this constitutes an authentic ethical minefield infinitely more complex as that from now when someone prints these skulls and bones, and reconstructs them, he\/she becomes the owner of these data. The ethical implications of more general scope also concern Matthew Longo in Politico<\/em><\/a> where he emphasises that algorithms are not free of human bias and often amplify them. Consequently, new technologies are redefining the relationship between the individual and the State to the extent that the collection and the use of massive data is reducing the privacy of citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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