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Opulens Global is a magazine for you who is curious about global topics. Besides those challenges globalisation means for work, climate and international institutions, we want to focus on optimistic phenomena in the future. Follow the planet's development with us!
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Cryptocurrencies are a vital part of the new globalisation

Vladan Lausevic

4 aug 2022

Global

WORLD. Globalization has been proclaimed dead in relation to the inflation problems, the war in Ukraine, and the recent Covie-19 pandemic. Different academics and experts have talked about deglobalization since 2020. However, new globalization is now being developed and also organized with decentralized technology such as cryptocurrencies. Comments and myths about “the death of globalization” are false and

Global

Walls, fences, and a borderless world: Recent arguments

This article was originally published in 2019 by Amy Oloo via Democracy Without Borders blog. FREEDOM. With millions of people across the world fleeing violence, oppression, economic desparation or because of environmental reasons, migration remains a key issue on the political agenda. Two years ago we reported on our blog that

New solutions for global risks?

CLIMATE. ”The opportunity with the Stockholm + 50 conference is to get

Being an individual yesterday, today and tomorrow

THE INDIVIDUAL. Historically, the notion of being an individual is a modern

The parrot

9 maj 2022

Global

I live in a cage, and I have lived in it for a long time. How long? I don’t know. My memory is, as you know, not much to boast about. But that doesn’t mean that I am an idiot. I understand more than you think. But it is obvious

Pablo Reinoso at Chambord

2 maj 2022

Global

Chambord is a 500-year-old castle in the Loire Valley, South of Paris. Magic operates when a contemporary artist is permitted to use its historic walls and grandiose park for his artworks! This spring and throughout the summer, the castle is opened for visitors to come and enjoy its premises with

Why Ukraine is winning ”the crypto-war”

27 apr 2022

Global

In connection with the war in Ukraine, political discussions are underway about whether Russia can avoid recently imposed sanctions by using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin? The concern that Russia can avoid sanctions through cryptocurrencies is not just exaggerated and unjustified. Cryptocurrencies are, at the moment, more beneficial for Ukraine. Thanks to its

How Africa Could Stabilize Global Gas Disruption

23 apr 2022

Global

SANCTIONS. The Europeans and Africans are both experiencing structural and transformational setbacks right from the time of COVID19 in 2020 to late 2022 and through to the current Ukraine – Russia war. Most European and African economies were set for rapid recovery after the COVID pandemic but this boom run

Global challenges demand global multistakeholder solutions

8 apr 2022

Global

COMPLEXITY. Wars, diseases and major ecological collapses have existed as long as there has been human life on Earth. Humans have been heavily afflicted by such problems, but we have always risen from ashes. But imagine if, despite that the risks are low, a global catastrophe takes place without humanity

Beyond Globalization Lies Inter-Regional Integration for Africa’s Development

4 apr 2022

Global

AFRICA. Globalization is the integration, interconnectedness and interaction among people, governments and organizations but also an economic, political and policy tool for influence, diplomacy and power. Packaged with a neoliberal structure, it moves along with supranational and international institutions to influence engagements across borders. Globalization is marked by innovations in

Fight for your rights!

25 okt 2021

Global

RIGHTS. The 2020s could be a decade when new systems and functions concerning rights are developed. But the future development can be both light and dark, depending on which ideas win more support and acceptance in public debates. Keeping in mind the 2010s nationalist and populist development where human rights

Women painters from 1780 – 1830

31 maj 2021

Global

ART HISTORY. The Luxembourg museum, close to the artists quarters of Saint Germain, in Paris, is situated in a lush park. Its opening exhibition shows women painters, a rarity in those days.