The beginnings of globalisation are usually dated to the last third of the twentieth century, alongside the rise of supranational companies, the financial economy and the information technology revolution. However, from the time the Earth was "anthropocized" during the Palaeolithic era,...

International migration afflicts nearly every corner of the globe, from the Americas, Europe and North Africa, and adjoining countries in South Asia. This migration links the socio-economic statuses of migrants' home countries and those into which they are migrating. This phenomenon has a...

The European Security Strategy (ESS) issued by the EU in December 2003 devoted its first chapter to what it called 'global challenges'. Most of those challenges -poverty, infectious disease, drought and famine, violent conflict - affect the Europe of today only indirectly and/or moderately,...