Beyond the crisis

This issue’s cover story is that of the economic crisis which has been spreading across the globe since 2008, bringing about not only change and ruptures but mostly a genuine battle of ideas about the best way of facing it. This battle has in fact given way to debates about world order in terms of political and economic power. Perspectiva has put together a number of articles by renowned academics for this issue, among them: Carlos Alberto Patiño Villa, lecturer at the National University of Colombia; José María Aznar, Spain’s ex-president; Carlos Sabino, argentine sociologist; and Francis Fukuyama, American political expert, author of the 1992 book “The End of History and the Last Man” and Olivier Nomellini, Senior Fellow at the “Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies'' at Stanford University.

The 30th edition of the Perspectiva review has come out: “Beyond the Crisis: Some Ideas for a Changing World”. This issue’s cover story is that of the economic crisis which has been spreading all over the world since 2008, bringing about not only change and ruptures but mostly a genuine battle of ideas about the best way of facing it. This battle has in fact given way to debates about world order in terms of political and economic power. The current issue aims at highlighting the importance of the free market as a tool for development as well as the value of democracy as the only system capable of guaranteeing that the common norms of life in society are enforced and respected.
For this issue, Perspectiva has put together a number of articles by renowned academics and experts, among them: Carlos Alberto Patiño Villa, lecturer at the National University of Colombia; José María Aznar, Spain’s ex-president and president of the Faes Foundation (“Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales”); Benita Ferrero-Waldner, president of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean Foundation (EU-LAC); Enrique Ghersi, peruvian lawyer; Carlos Alberto Montaner, Cuban writer and journalist; Carlos Sabino, argentine sociologist; Martín Krause, argentine economist, and Francis Fukuyama, American political expert and author of the 1992 book “The End of History and the Last Man”, and Olivier Nomellini, Senior Fellow at the “Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies" at Stanford University.

In the section on Latin America, Antonio de la Cruz, Venezuelan associate of “Visión Américas” and ex Manager of Planning at PDVSA, provides an analysis of the Venezuelan oil company’s business model. In “Temas & Debates” (“Topics and Debates”), we gather contrasting opinions on the dismissal of Paraguay’s ex-president, Fernando Lugo, from the point of view of Luis M. Duarte, a Paraguayan professor at the School of Social Sciences at the National University of Asunción, as well as that of the Colombian Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, internationalist at the University of Rosario and who holds an MA in Geopolitics from the University of Paris VIII.
In the “Mundo” (“World”) section, Andrés Mauricio Ramírez, of Colombian nationality, international consultant in foreign trade and competitiveness, analyses the free trade treaties between China, Japan and South Korea. Andrés Molano Rojas, also of Colombian nationality, academic director at the Observatory of Politics and Strategy for Latin America (Opeal), discusses the limits of the policy of non-intervention in the absence of a world government; Pedro Vargas Gallo, Colombian businessman and academic, gives an account on the situation in Greece based on his own personal experience, and Marcos Peckel, Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of International Relations at the Externado University in Colombia, puts forward possible solution scenarios for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In “Opinión”, the Centre for International Private Enterprise (Cipe), presents excerpts from an interview with Stephenie Foster, international consultant and lecturer at the American University in Washington, D.C., who speaks of the importance of promoting women’s economic and political leadership; Gabriel Salvia, Director of the Centre for the Opening and Development of Latin America (CADAL), explains the Latin-American political divisions at the UN’S Human Rights Council, and Edwar Enrique Escalante, director of “Andes Libres” in Peru, examines the concept of the State as a driving force for growth and development. Finally, in “Recomendados” (Recommendations), the Chilean historian Aldolfo Ibañez, gives a review on the book ”Creadores de riqueza. Emprendedores que cambiaron nuestras vidas” (“Generators of Wealth: Entrepeneurs Who Have Changed our Lives”). In this section we also present the film “La rebelión de Atlas” and the website InSigthCrime.org.

The Perspectiva review is published by the Colombian Institute of Political Science and represented by CADAL in Argentina and Uruguay.

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