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136 – Better safe than sorry?

DiploFoundation

10 July 2012

I’m no friend of the Precautionary Principle. It is not a principle, but a rhetorical device, which can justify action and inaction, depending on one’s fears, rather than rational analysis. A mathematics profes...

Better safe than sorry?

Aldo Matteucci

10 July 2012

I’m no friend of the Precautionary Principle. It is not a principle, but a rhetorical device, which can justify action and inaction, depending on one’s fears, rather than rational analysis. A mathematics profe...

When do negotiations start?

Mary Murphy

The political spectrum in Hungary has been providing lots of food for thought and discussion in recent weeks.Topics like Internet governance,  media censorship, anti-Semitism and europhobia are being tossed around in...

Metaphors and Images: Illustrating Climate Change

Katharina Höne

06 July 2012

Climate diplomacy

Pictures and illustrations are an excellent tool to illustrate complexities because they allow us to incorporate metaphors and analogies more intuitively. And metaphors and analogies are, ultimately, what we use to ma...

135 – The power of small things

DiploFoundation

06 July 2012

The other day Jovan kindly suggested, in an eMail, that I “take a rest” after the shower of blog entries. The problem is – Sylvie and I are already taking a rest in God’s own country, aka Kerala, India.   ...

The power of small things

Aldo Matteucci

06 July 2012

The other day Jovan kindly suggested, in an eMail, that I “take a rest” after the shower of blog entries. The problem is – Sylvie and I are already taking a rest in God’s own country, aka Kerala, India. An...

134 – Of means and ends

DiploFoundation

05 July 2012

In the inanimate world, action leads to an end. The billiard ball falls into the pocket – and that’s it. After the well-aimed shot it stays put. The end is final. In the animate and social world, action leads to a...

Of means and ends

Aldo Matteucci

05 July 2012

In the inanimate world, action leads to an end. The billiard ball falls into the pocket – and that’s it. After the well-aimed shot it stays put. The end is final. In the animate and social world, action leads to a...