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This paper is the first attempt to formalize a new field of economics; studding the Intangibles Goods available on the Internet. We are taking advantage of the digital world's specific rules to propose a theory of trading & sharing unified. A function based money is created as a world-wide currency; ⊔ (pronounced /k^p/). We argue that our system discourage speculation activities while it makes easy captured taxes for governments. The implementation removes the today's paywall on the Internet and provides a simple-to-use, open-source, free-of-charge, highly-secure, person-to-person, privacy-respectful, digital payment tool for citizens, using standard smart-phones with a strong authentication. Next step will be the propagation of the network application and we expect many shared benefits for the whole economics development.

I should preface this paper with a cautionary note. It is not intended to parade as a full-fledged scholarly paper bringing new or little known facts. Nor does it aim at novel theories or interpretations. It does not even have its roots in the fascinating details and problems of Luso-Indian history per se. It only wants to propose a somewhat different, although not overly novel, perspective. This perspective is – not surprisingly – an indological one. My starting point is my concern with India's traditions of empire and imperial expansion. Given this concern, it seems quite logical to turn to the Portuguese as well as to the Dutch experience of and tangles with the tradition and practice of empire they obtained in the world of the Indian Ocean, where the subcontinent has always occupied a predominant position. The exercise is the more interesting since the Portuguese, and after them the Dutch, were each in their own way empire builders in their own right. They had to react to the imperial configurations that were coming about at the time of the Portuguese appearance in the Indian waters and that were being consolidated when the Portuguese were followed by their Dutch rivals. The experience and the reactions of both the Dutch and the Portuguese have something to tell us about India, as well as the other way around.

In mehreren Beiträgen werden die aktuellen militärischen Konflikte in Afrika untersucht, mit Rückblicken auf die Entwicklung der Dekolonisation. Folgende Aspekte werden angesprochen: Bedeutung der Armeen zur Garantie der Unabhängigkeit; Friedenschancen durch Ost-West-Entspannung; Kurzübersicht zu den Kriegen bzw. den Bürgerkriegen in Westsahara, Eritrea, Tigre und Sudan; Entwicklung zwischen RSA und den Frontstaaten; Rolle der RENAMO-Rebellen in Mosambik und Simbabwe; Militäretats im Verhältnis zum Bruttosozialprodukt; Rückgang der Waffenexporte nach Afrika. Abschließend ein Interview mit dem Generalsekretär der Befreiungsfront Eritreas (EPLF), Assayas Afwerki. (DÜI-Wsl)