The Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD) has released the inaugural issue of its magazine Horizons. The magazine provides a new forum for issues of international relations and sustainable development to be debated, and contains high-level and expert analysis, provided by well-respected authors from the world of politics, the private sector and academia.
The Table of Contents and full-texts of some of the articles can be accessed here.
The central theme of the inaugural issue is “The World in Flux: 100 Years After World War I." This topic is, among others, addressed by Stratfor’s president George Friedman; Christopher Clark, a professor of history at the University of Cambridge; Kevin Rudd, the former Prime Minister of Australia; and Ian Bremmer, the president and founder of Eurasia Group, a leading risk consultancy network.
Other authors featured in the inaugural issue of Horizons include Ahmet Davutoğlu, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Turkey; José Alberto Mujica, the President of Uruguay; and Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, who presently serves as Mongolia’s President.
In addition, the inaugural issue of Horizons has essays by Jeffrey Sachs, a well-known Columbia University Professor and a leading authority in sustainable development; Li Wei, the President of the Development Research Center of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China; and Sultan Ahmed Al-Jaber, Minister of State of the United Arab Emirates. They each address matters referring to sustainable development and global economic trends.
The inaugural issue also includes articles discussing the future of the EU. Writers include Jean Asselborn, the sitting Foreign Minister of Luxemburg; Migel Moratinos, former Foreign Minister of Spain; as well as Italy’s and Switzerland’s former Foreign Ministers Franco Frattini and Micheline Calmy-Rey, respectively.
CIRSD is pleased to offers Horizons as a new forum for global discussion on the full spectrum of issues that shape and are shaped in turn by international developments.
Official launch and promotional events will be held in October in Belgrade and New York.
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