Yes, by the Corona virus like everybody else, but also by the fighting in Syria and Libya. Can Europe, can the EU react adequately? And what will Brexit Britain do? Covid-19 dominates not only the media headlines but the everyday life of just about anybody in Europe. In the federalist EU, it is still up…
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India between global economics and Hindu nationalism
[ ... ]India is currently torn between challenges of global economic competition and self-imposed limitations derived from Hindu nationalism. Since its inception as the independent Republic of India, the country has been living with two strategic and psychological traumas: the Partition of 1947, with which the Muslim League took away half of India’s Muslim population and founded…
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Westasien: der Mittlere und der Nahe Osten
[ ... ]Der Mittlere und speziell der Nahe Osten werden nicht unbedingt ‘Asien’ zugeordnet, wo China und allenfalls Indien im Mittelpunkt stehen. Aber auch Westasien ist Teil des Grossraums Asien-Pazifik (AP). Nicht nur geographisch. Zahlreiche geopolitische Voraussetzungen – also der politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Hintergrund – der Region Mittlerer Osten sind mit anderen Teilen des AP’s vergleichbar:…
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Continental Europe now on its own
[ ... ]Boris Johnson’s Brexit, coming on the heels of a recent tepid endorsement of NATO by Donald Trump’s USA, is another reminder that Europe, minus the UK will have to do more for its defence. On occasion of the last NATO-summit the widening gap between Western Europe – Eastern Europe clings to the Atlantic security treaty…
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Clouds in the East
[ ... ]The rapidly deteriorating situation in the Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific threatens peace and prosperity in the rest of the world, too. Can Europe do anything to prevent further sliding? ‘The Asia-Pacific/Indo-Pacific (AP/IP) is the future’. That gospel has been, and is resonating in Europe, too. More than ever in the past, Europe’s prosperity, and relative peace worldwide as…
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Macron als internationaler Staatsmann
[ ... ]Die Treffen der sieben grössten westlichen Wirtschaftsmächte sind seit Amtsantritt von Präsident Trump zu diplomatischen Gratwanderungen geworden. Am Gipfel in Biarritz Ende Juli hat Gastgeber Macron nicht nur die Neutralisierung des Elefanten im Glas- rsp. Weissen Haus fertiggebracht, sondern auch zentrale Themen, die Trump verabscheut, prominent in Erinnerung gerufen. Die G-7 Gruppe (USA, Kanada, Japan,…
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‘Security Brexit’: Johnson follows Trump in the Persian Gulf
[ ... ]In aligning himself with US President Trump with regard to policing the Gulf, the new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has abandoned any pretense that his type of Brexit would exclude security and defense matters. This is in sharp contrast to the May government before him which has always insisted that it was willing and…