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Germany and the Challenge of Authoritarian Capitalism

The goal of German foreign policy is to deter authoritarian expansion and destabilization in Eastern Europe and, should it become necessary, in East Asia, without pushing the global economy backwards towards autarky, towards the breakdown of global economic interdependence. Balance in 21st century... more...

Michael Ignatieff, Canadian Historian and former Politician; Professor at Harvard Kennedy School.

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Germany's Role02.06.2014

How much does the new Germany still care for the West?

What is wrong with German foreign policy? Germany must resist four temptations to which it has succumbed in the past: unilateralism, equidistance, inter-governmentalism, and geo-economics. Other EU-countries are often no better. However, the four characteristics of unilateralism,... more...

Anne-Marie Le Gloannec,
Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI) in Paris

Germany's Role31.05.2014

A Power-Broker to Give International Weight to Europe

German foreign policy today is defined as much by what it as by what it is not. The country needs a clear compass. For Germany to be both successful and effective internationally, she has to become Europe's pivot power, the power-broker within a more de-centralized, intergovernmentalist... more...

Anne-Marie Slaughter,
Professor for International Relations at Princeton University; from 2010-2011 she directed the Planning Staff in the US Department of State.

Germany's Role30.05.2014

A shirker: weak in strategy and too commercially-driven!

German attitudes to Russia in particular and foreign policy in general will not change rapidly. Since Germany is a profoundly democratic country, its politicians cannot ignore public opinion. At the same time, its ability to define its interests in ways that are not exclusively commercial... more...

Charles Grant,
Director of the Centre for European Reform (CER)

Europe28.05.2014

The European neighbourhood in turmoil

In the area of European security and European Neighbourhood Policy Europe has been avoiding the difficult question to determine where Europe ends. But defining Europe will be a key priority and Germany needs to shape the European project more explicitly than it has. Complacency and... more...

Louise Arbour,
President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Crisis Group, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Europe28.05.2014

A multi-speed Europe and a more robust Euro

The task for Germany's policy on Europe is three-fold: First of all, Germany's engagement needs to be strengthened in the Economic and Currency Union as well as in the Common Foreign and Security Policy. Secondly, this can only be done in close cooperation with European partners, EU... more...

Daniela Schwarzer,
Director of the Europe Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) in Berlin

Germany's Role27.05.2014

The Federal Republic's chief challenge: Making the EU work!

Calling for Germany to lead means to want to her to lead inside the Union. The true strategic task for German foreign policy, as for French, Polish, Dutch and British, is not to make an improved national foreign policy but to shape a genuinely European one. Only then can Germany truly... more...

Timothy Garton Ash,
Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford

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