George Soros
Field of reference: Economics
Description: We need a whole new order, including a new financial system, and this reinvention requires global awarness and cooperation
“A whole new world order, including a new financial order and rules, involving international cooperation, is imperative. A new system of rules, institutions, and procedures regulating the international monetary system, as the “Bretton Woods” system did in 1944, may be a starting point. The United State’s position, as a current economic and political Superpower, may be threatened if a true global effort is not initiated. The alternative is terrifying, because a superpower losing both political and economic governance, with military dominance, is a dangerous situation. Although President Obama has been actively trying to enlist international cooperation, resistance is still at large. The main culprit, by far, is the collective lack of awareness that a broken system is amongst us. Reinvention of any system requires all hands on deck. The world’s future seriously depends on global awareness and cooperation.”
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Christine Lagarde
Field of reference: Economics
"בעולם שלנו, אשר הופך תלוי ומקושר יותר ויותר, אף מדינה או איזור לא יכולים להצליח לבד"....כריסטין לגארד, הזהירה מהסיכונים של "עשור אבוד" לכלכלה העולמית אלא אם כן המדינות יפעלו יחד כדי להתמודד עם האיומים על הצמיחה.
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Dr. Sergey Karaganov
Field of reference: Politics
Description: a quote on global interdependence and unity as a solution
"It is clear that the global crisis is only beginning and will affect everyone. But it is not clear how and when all countries will jointly start overcoming it."
"This crisis and this new period in world history threaten to inflict inevitable hardships on billions of people"
"The matter at hand is not just a deep financial and economic crisis. This is an overall crisis of the entire system of global governance; a crisis of ideas on which global development was based; and a crisis of international institutions. Overcoming this overall crisis will require a new round of reforms, the construction of international institutions and systems for governing the world economy and finance, and a new philosophy for global development."
"One must be morally and politically ready for that period of creation, and already now, despite the crisis, one must start building up one’s intellectual potential so that in a year or several years one could be ready to put forward one’s own, well-grounded proposals for rebuilding the international governance system on a more just and stable basis."
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Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt
Field of reference: Politics
Description: a quote on global interdependence.
"In reshaping or reconstituting the Atlantic civilization, we need to remember this: The 21st century, unlike the period after the Congress of Vienna, is no longer a zero-sum game of winners and losers. Rather, it is a century of multiple networked nodes.
The better these nodes are connected with each other, the more they will resonate with the best ideals and principles Europe and the United States stand for. This lesson of history is yet to be discovered by those who try to reinvigorate a common transatlantic frame of mind. This effort goes well beyond the surface of debates on a "declining" West and of U.S."
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Sir Norman Angell
Field of reference: Sociology, Biology
Description: The author states that neither the individual nor the nation is the complete organism. without cooperation with other individuals and nations they will not survive
"The individual in his sociological aspect is not the complete organism. He who attempts to live without association with his fellows dies. Nor is the nation the complete organism. If Britain attempted to live without cooperation with other nations, half the population would starve. The completer the cooperation, the greater the vitality; the more imperfect the cooperation, the less the vitality. Now, a body, the various parts of which are so interdependent that without coordination vitality is reduced or death ensues, must be regarded, in so far as the functions in question are concerned, not as a collection of rival organisms, but as one. This is in accord with what we know of the character of living organisms in their conflict with environment. The higher the organism, the greater the elaboration and interdependence of its part, the greater the need for coordination.
If we take this as the reading of the biological law, the whole thing becomes plain; man's irresistible drift away from conflict and towards cooperation is but the completer adaptation of the organism (man) to its environment (the planet, wild nature), resulting in a more intense vitality."
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