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Author-Name: Kristina Kausch
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)
Author-Name: Isaías Barreñada
Author-Workplace-Name: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI)
Title: Alliance of Civilizations International Security and Cosmopolitan Democracy: Seminar Conclusions
Abstract: The initiative to form an “Alliance of Civilizations” as a means to overcome cultural and political
	gaps originated in a proposal made by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to the Secretary-General of the
	United Nations during a speech at the 59th UN General Assembly on September 21, 2004.
	Kofi Annan officially took over the initiative, co-sponsored by the UN, the Spanish and the Turkish
	governments, on July 14, 2005. The Secretary-General also put in place a process to form a High
	Level Panel, which is expected to hold its first meeting in late November, in order to convert this
	first impulse into a feasible and operative concept by the end of 2006.
	On June 6-7, 2005, the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI) and the Fundación
	para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior (FRIDE) organized an international
	seminar in Madrid, bringing together experts, academics and practitioners to analyse contemporary
	challenges, reflect critically on their implications for the present initiative, and enhance and enrich
	it.
	The present paper summarizes the main ideas for an Alliance of Civilizations, the major critical
	points, and the suggestions made, during the seminar, in order to tackle them.
Keywords: Balance of trade, Simultaneous equations, Export and import equations, Cointegration, Balanza comercial, 
	Ecuaciones de exportación e importación, Ecuaciones simultáneas, Cointegración.
Creation-Date: 2005 
Length: 22 pages
Number:
 0503
File-URL: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/10533/1/WP_03-05.pdf
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