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The author holds in this article that a thoughtful reflection on the construction of a worldly public space should include the idea of a anamnetic democracy when thinking about the possibility of a integral & just globalization. To go beyond the simple foreign policy would mean to address a new paradigm of the international law based on the insights of an ethics of the responsibility with a critical reference to the past. Adapted from the source document.

In this article, the author asserts that education today is a process subordinated to important tensions &, therefore, its relationship with ethical topics cannot be unilateral. From the definition of current ethical issues, he stresses that the relation of ethics to political problems is established from the mediation of legality & justice embodied in law. The proposal offers more advantages, since it faces the moral & political problems of the global society. This concept indicates the need to integrate political answers to the evident systemic supremacy over social life all around the world. The author states that to initiate a project of radical, transgenerational democracy will require a policy of peace founded in universal juridical progress, from which will emerge a genuine interest in the study of the complex relations between ethics, education, & the international system. Adapted from the source document.

With the end of the Cold War comes the inevitable need to review the notion of national security under the new world order. Issues such as drug trafficking & terrorism become top priorities regarding the national security concerns of nations; however, other topics emerge with the potential of threatening the stability of the States. This article examines the issue of environment & security highlighting the case of Mexico. It emphasizes that environmental degradation & natural resource scarcity have the potential to affect the stability of nations, & in some cases, can even lead to violent conflicts. Potential sources of conflict are the adverse effects of climate change, water & other resources scarcity, deforestation, demographic growth & environmental refugees, among others. Likewise, different official answers are analysed such as the Rio Summit & the World Summit of Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg, with particular attention given to the recently held Special Conference on Security organized by the Organization of American States. 2 Tables. Adapted from the source document.

Social changes accompanying the evolution of technology and its contradictions find expression in dynamic desequilibria which affect the internal economies of both the central and the peripheral countries. This article analyses these disequilibria and puts forward considerations relating to the crisis of conventional economic ideas. It concludes outlining a policy to grapple with the current crisis