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The Great Power Game
India in the New World
by Sunil Khilnani | 30.08.2010
India is beginning to settle into its new role as an important player in global relations. Its unique situation as the world’s largest democracy situated in a volatile region between the West and China could make it indispensable on the world stage. Will India forge ahead in this new role, or try to conform to existing definitions of power?
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Global Issues
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New Dehli’s Democracy Offensive
by Kanti Bajpai | 29.08.2010
What is the future of India’s democracy promotion? India’s own healthy democracy, its security and diplomatic interests, opportunities in South Asia and beyond, and its growing economic and military clout give it the confidence to promote more democracy -- around the world. Hurrying India into doing anything rarely works.
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Fighting Climate Change
by Brahma Chellaney | 27.08.2010
India finds itself on the frontlines of climate change. But the failures of Copenhagen show the need for India to change course in dealing with the problem. India needs to demand more accountability from the biggest polluters and work together with developing countries to form a more equitable solution to the global climate crisis.
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Getting Governance Right
by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi | 24.08.2010
The failure of the E.U. to change the modus operandi of successive Greek governments should not be repeated in Eastern Europe, which has an assertive, though small civil society to build upon.
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Neighbors Without Fences
by Ralf Fücks
Relations with Eastern Europe can not be a dismal, zero-sum geostrategic game in which Russia loses what Brussels wins, or vice versa. This harms no one more than the small eastern countries themselves. The goal is not to push Russia out of Eastern Europe but to include it in ever-closer economic and political cooperation.
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Walk and Chew Gum
by Constanze Stelzenmüller
The challenge of crafting a coherent policy for Eastern Europe remains unresolved, on both sides of the Atlantic. Washington and Brussels have substantial overlapping interests in the regions from the Caspian Sea to St. Petersburg and beyond. They should not compete to fill the current vacuum—or allow Russia to play one off against the other.
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Odd Man In
by Sergei Karaganov
Russia and the E.U. must set the long-term goal of creating a Union of Europe, which would also include countries like Turkey, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. If Europe does not unite, the United States and China will dominate the world order. A geostrategic triangle between the United States, China, and a truly united Europe would benefit everyone.
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Book Reviews
About Schmidt
by Alan Posener
Helmut Schmidt was, in a way, an accidental and incidental chancellor. He assumed the office in 1974 after his visionary but vacillating predecessor Willy Brandt had resigned in a huff, and Schmidt himself was forced to relinquish the office to another visionary, Helmut Kohl, in 1982.
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Hans-Ulrich Klose, Coordinator of German-American Cooperation
On April 1, 2010 Hans-Ulrich Klose became Coordinator of German-American Cooperation. Experienced in transatlantic relations, Klose has held the positions of Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the German-U.S. Parliamentary Friendship Group since 2002 and 2003 respectively.
