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2011: A watershed for economics, technology and power politics?
Posted: 2012-01-23
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| Image by Ammar Abd Rabbo |
The Year 2011 was the year of the Arab Spring and the European Winter. A year marked by protest, revolution, and conflict; a year that saw the toppling of dictators and the toppling, ideologically, of big banking. But how will we judge 2011 in a century’s time? Will the Arab Spring and European Winter lead to a more equal and prosperous global society, the kind that many expected to follow in 1989? Or will it lead to even more horrors than we witnessed in the 20th century? Read on below. |
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