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Starting Over on Climate
After the Copenhagen debacle, Europe needs a new climate strategy
by Sascha Müller-Kraenner | 05.02.2010
It was a disaster in every respect: In Copenhagen the European Union succeeded neither in establishing itself as a driving force in climate policy alongside the United States and China, nor in reaching its own basic negotiation objectives. Now Europe has to revive the multilateral climate proceedings with a convincing strategy.
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Exit Strategy for a Culture War
by Heinz Theisen | 27.01.2010
The West has failed in Afghanistan because it underestimated cultural factors and set the unrealistic goals of democracy and human rights—instead of just establishing a functional state. Now, after eight years, we are forced to reevaluate our moralizing and idealistic concepts of world order, and to make plans for withdrawal.
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Rebel in the House of Luther
by Paul Hockenos | 22.01.2010
Margot Kässmann, the new head of Germany’s biggest Protestant organization, has come out strongly against Germany’s military mission in Afghanistan. The committed pacifist has stuck to her guns in the face of a withering backlash.
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Fountain of Peace
by Tobias von Lossow | 20.01.2010
The vital, increasingly scarce resource of water has the power to spark tension and conflict. But the sheer necessity of water also compels parties to cooperate when the benefits of cooperation outweigh the costs of conflict. More water resources are available if the international community can revamp global water governance.
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NATO’s Last Stand
by William Drozdiak
Even if most Germans are not convinced of it, their security is at stake on the Hindu Kush, too. Germany can help the Americans at this critical juncture, with troops, police trainers, and development resources. Defeating enemies like the Taliban and Al Qaeda requires more than sheer military force. Nothing less than NATO’s viability is at stake.
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Getting to Zero
by Benjamin Schreer und Patrick Keller
The new German government has pledged to remove all U.S. tactical nuclear weapons stationed in Germany. Although this is in keeping with President Obama’s aim of achieving “global zero,” a world free of nuclear weapons, it cannot impede a debate in Germany on Europe’s deterrence strategy.
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Our Revolution Isn't Finished Yet
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, director of a Romanian think tank promoting good governance, is cautiously optimistic about Romania’s future. Twenty years after the Christmas revolution, her country is in the European Union, “just where it should be,” she responds to Romania’s critics. Today Mungiu-Pippidi teaches Democratization Studies at the Hertie School of Governance.
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Negative Dialectic
by John Feffer
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You Should Know...
Hans-Ulrich Klose, Chairman of the German-American Parliamentary Group
First elected to the German Bundestag in 1983, Hans-Ulrich Klose is a Social Democratic Party member and currently serves as a member of the German Bundestag. He was elected as vice-president of the Bundestag in 1994 before becoming the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1998. He is presently a substitute member of the Committee on Affairs of the European Union, and a chairman and speaker for the German American Parliamentary Group. In terms of foreign policy, his focus is on relations between Russia and the EU, transatlantic relations, and the role that Germany plays and needs to play in the world.
