Publications Review 11.04.2013

In this issue you will find: Latin America's drift away from the US, China-North Korea relations, Inefficiency of austerity measures, Decline in volume of Development aid, Presidential elections in Kenya, US-China relations, Arms Trade Treaty.

In his column at Beijing-based the 4th Media Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya states that Latin America will continue to drift away from the US even after the death of charismatic Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

Another article by the 4th Media reviews latest media activity around recent developments in China-North Korea relations and claims that, despite numerous statements by Western authors, China will not help the US to punish North Korea.

In an article “The New York Times Thinks Bleeding Cyprus is “Strong Medicine” published by Other News Bill Black criticizes neoclassical approach to economics and argues that austerity is not an efficient instrument of tackling recession.

In another paper published by Other News Jaya Ramachandran reviews recent report by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and analyzes how decline in volume of Development aid will affect different groups of developing countries.

Results of presidential elections in Kenya are in the focus of recent (April 9, 2013) Daily News Brief of Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). According to it, although Western leaders are concerned that newly-elected president Uhuru Kenyatta is indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, they are willing to work with the new government, as they are hoping that it will manage to maintain a long-awaited national peace in this African country.

Amitai Etzioni from Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at The George Washington University in his recent article in Survival magazine reviews the possibility of future collision between China and the US and provides arguments for accommodation of China by Barack Obama administration.

Recent editorial in The Hindu is dedicated to the Arms Trade Treaty which was approved by the United Nations General Assembly on the 2nd of April. According to the newspaper: “the real meaning of the Arms Trade <…> is best demonstrated by the imbalance in the exporter-importer relationship and the carve-outs that the world’s biggest sellers of weapons have written in for themselves”