scholarly journals The Impact of the Global Economic and Financial Crisis on Central Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) and Latin America

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonsoles Gallego Herrero ◽  
Sandor Gardo ◽  
Reiner Martin ◽  
Luis Molina ◽  
Jose Maria Serena
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Southeastern Europe ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

Euro-Atlantic Relations in the XXI Century: Problems and Scenarios

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
N. Arbatova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Defense Spending ◽  
Main Question ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

The Euro-Atlantic relations after the end of the Cold war have been strongly influenced by the impact of three interrelated crises: the existential crisis of NATO, the world economic and financial crisis, and the crisis in the Russia-West relations. The end of bipolarity has changed the threat environment and revealed how different alliance members formulate their threat perception and foreign policy interests. Europe stopped to be the US foreign policy priority. The US pivot to Asia has raised European concerns about American commitments to collective defense. The removal of the threat of a global conflict resulted in the EU initiatives aimed at promoting integration in the field of common security and defense policy (CSDP). Even though the US has officially welcomed a stronger European pillar in NATO, it has become concerned about new approaches that could divide transatlantic partnership and take resources away from military cooperation. At the same time the unilateralist preferences of the Bush administration generated deep political divisions between the United States and the European Union. The world economic and financial crisis contributed to a dangerous gulf between American and European defense spending. The US has complained about the tendency of the alliance’s European members to skimp on defense spending and take advantage of America’s security shield to free ride. In the absence of a clear external threat NATO tried to draft new missions, which were found in NATO’s expansion to the post-Communist space and Alliance’s out of area operations. But these new missions could not answer the main question about NATO’s post-bipolar identity. Moreover, the Kosovo operation of NATO in 1999 fueled Russia’s concerns about NATO’s intentions in the post-Soviet space. The creeping crisis in the Russia-West relations resulted in the Caucasus and Ukrainian conflicts that provided kind of glue to transatlantic relations but did not return them to the old pattern. There can be several representing possible futures lying ahead. But under any scenario EU will be faced with a necessity to shoulder more of the burden of their own security.

scholarly journals The Fall of a Giant: Greed, Corruption and Abuse of Power Undermining Democracy in Brazil

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-211
Author(s):  
Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann ◽  
Bettina De Souza Guilherme
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Systemic Effects ◽  
Abuse Of Power ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis Chapter explores the impact of the financial crisis on Brazilian democracy. We argue that while Brazil is one among many countries facing systemic effects of the 2008 crisis, domestic factors are also important to understand the level of the crisis, and the fragility of democracy at the present. Domestic factors explain, therefore the differences between Brazil and other countries in Latin America and in Europe.

scholarly journals High Mortality Rate Among Latin American Immigrants With Covid-19 Hospitalised in Milan, Italy: Data From the Luigi Sacco Hospital Registry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Giacomelli ◽  
Anna Lisa Ridolfo ◽  
Cecilia Bonazzetti ◽  
Letizia Oreni ◽  
Federico Conti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
Hospital Registry ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background To assess differences in the probability of COVID-19-related death between native Italians and immigrants hospitalised with COVID-19. Methods This was a retrospective study of prospectively collected data conducted at the ASST Fatebenefratelli-Sacco Hospital in Milan, Italy, between 21 February and 31 November 2020. Uni- and multivariable Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the impact of the patients' origin on the probability of COVID-19-related death. Results The study population consisted of 1,179 COVID-19 patients: 921 Italians (78.1%) and 258 immigrants (21.9%) from Latin America (99, 38.4%), Asia (72, 27.9%), Africa (50, 19.4%) and central/eastern Europe (37, 14.3%). The Italians were older (p < 0.001) and more frequently affected by co-morbidities (p < 0.001). Mortality was significantly greater among the Italians than the immigrants as a whole (26.6% vs 12.8%; p < 0.001), and significantly greater among the immigrants from Latin America than among those from Asia, Africa and central/eastern Europe (21.2% vs 8.3%, 6% and 8.1%, respectively; p = 0.016). Multivariate analyses showed that a Latin American origin was independently associated with an increased risk of death (adjusted hazard ratio 1.95, 95% confidence interval 1.17–3.23). Conclusions Our findings support the need to strengthen COVID-19 information and prevention initiatives in the Latin American community living in Milan.

scholarly journals Slipping Off or Turning the Tide? Gender Equality in European Union’s External Relations in Times of Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 322-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna L Muehlenhoff ◽  
Anna van der Vleuten ◽  
Natalie Welfens
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
World Politics ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
External Relations ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

The European Union has faced several crises in the past decades, including the economic and financial crisis, Brexit, a migration, climate change and security crisis, and the latest COVID-19 crisis. In this context, feminist scholars have shown how the causes and effects of the economic and financial crisis are strongly gendered. Generally, this literature suggests that crises can open a window of opportunity for gender considerations but may also promote policies which exacerbate gendered inequalities. Yet, the impact of crises on the attention to gender equality in European Union’s external relations is still unknown. This is surprising, as the European Union has promised to mainstream gender in all external policies, and understands itself to be a normative power and gender actor in world politics. This Special Issue analyses how the European Union’s identification of crisis and its policy responses to crisis in different external policy fields are gendered. The introduction situates the Special Issue within existing scholarship, theorises the central concepts of this Special Issue – crisis, gender (equality) and the European Union identities – and highlights how the different contributions advance our understanding of how gender figures in European Union’s external relations in past, current and future times of crisis.

The Impact of the Financial and Economic Crisis on Public Private Partnerships

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-91
Author(s):  
Matej Švigelj ◽  
Nevenka Hrovatin
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

The primary purpose of this paper is to contribute to the current debate on the impact of the economic and financial crisis on public-private partnerships (PPPs). The crisis has caused a substantial fall in the PPP market. PPPs have been exposed to both financial and real impacts of the crisis. High interest rates and limited access to finance have been seen as the main factors reflecting the impact of the financial crisis on PPPs. In addition, due to the recession the decreased revenues of PPP projects have reduced their feasibility or impacted on their overall profitability. Measures adopted to help the PPP market in the analysed countries reveal that they mostly involve some form of government support. Further, the paper also critically examines the deficiencies of PPPs.

THE POVERTY IN SLOVAKIA IN COMPARISON TO OTHER SELECTED EU COUNTRIES

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Daniela Palaščáková ◽  
Nataliia Stepaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Maximum Similarity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Economic And Financial Crisis

Poverty is a phenomenon which is present in all parts of the world. The main objective of the paper is to assess poverty in Slovakia compared with selected EU countries through cluster analysis. To the best of the country combined into clusters so as to achieve maximum similarity in terms of the monitoring indicators of poverty in the group, and the largest difference between the groups. Joining countries into clusters to be followed in a period of three years - 2006, 2009 and 2012 in order to determine the impact of the economic and financial crisis on poverty and social exclusion in the EU

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