Rene Wadlow is the editor of the online journal of world politics www.transnational-perspectives.org and the representative to the United Nations, Geneva, of the Association of World Citizens.
Syria : Opportunities and Limits of International Observation Efforts by Rene Wadlow The League of Arab States Observer Mission to Syria is in an administratively critical time with the Observer Mission members from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council States of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates l
The Cooperative Spirit and its Many Manifestations by Rene Wadlow The United Nations General Assembly in Resolution A/RES/64/136 has designated 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives in order to highlight the large role that cooperatives can play in ecologically-sound development and poverty reduction
Vaclav Havel (1936-2011): His Revolt is an Attempt to Live Within the Truth by Rene Wadlow He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. He discovers once more his suppressed identity and dignity. He gives his freedom a concrete significance. His revolt is an attempt to live within the truth.”
Rabindranath Tagore: The Call of the Real by Rene Wadlow The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous wave
The Ivory Coast: Of All Sad Words by Rene Wadlow Of all sad wordsOf tongue or pen,The saddest are these:It Might Have Been.The arrest on 11 April 2011 of Laurent Gbagbo, his wife and family and a small circle of “the faithful” in his fortified h
Preventive Diplomacy by Rene Wadlow The idea of preventive diplomacy - acting at the first sign of conflict before a pattern of violence sets in - has been made popular by the then UN Secretary General Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali's report Agenda for Peace (United Nations, 1992).