Supranational alliances reshape the centre-periphery relations in Latin America and the Caribbean, causing internal fractions in the economic and political links of the continent and claiming for a new geopolitical approach. The author focuses on countries that in fact able to position themselves as semi-peripheries. Mexico supports the US interests thus becoming its subordinated periphery, Brazil has its own ambition for power in the North-South play, thus questions and redefines its relationship to the su

Globalization provides a new dimension in trafficking of men, the modern slavery. In the third world and in certain countries in East Europe – and in the world as general – trafficking of women for the sex industry became a growing business.

on the book of Eszter Bartha: The Road of Workers from Socialism to Capitalism, East Europe 1968-1989. L'Harmattan, Budapest, 2009

The essay is examining the relationship and inherent links between decision makers and the ones who rebel against these decisions. The analysis unites points of earlier ideas of the author that were partly already published in Eszmélet.

"Why the – mostly misinterpreted – theory of Sándor Rácz Romano, the theory on the culture of separation became so popular? Why concepts of underclass and social disadvantage do not fit either?" asks the author. Concepts do matter, since if it were "the culture of segregation" accepted as the starting point then it would be obvious that what the culture of separation means in fact is the result of a certain economic and social development and it is not a national/ethnic