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Dirk Messner et al.: Germany needs to revitalise the multilateral climate process. Policy makers and civil society in Europe must take on a self-confident leading role in global alliances with selected ‘climate pioneer’ countries. Civil society initatives deserve greater support.
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Claire Schaepelynck : The Stockholm Programme appears to place human rights protection right at the heart of the European agenda. However, much is left to individual member states. Hence, the hoped-for improvement on the asylum issue may fail to materialize.
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Claudia Schwegmann: It is not the lack of knowledge that hampers development aid, but the structure of incentives within the aid system. Aid transparency and civil society engagement are key levers for addressing these problems and improving aid effectiveness.
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Timor Sharan: The violence in Afghanistan has taken a new dangerous dimension with Taliban using nomad Pashtun-Kuchi as part of their plain to aggravate ethnic tensions between the former and the Hazara community. This issue needs urgent attention from the Afhgan goverment and international community lest open conflict between the two groups develop.
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Mustafa Kutlay: It was reported on Monday, May 31, that the Israeli forces stormed one of the six ships carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. This operation is a clear breach of international law. The EU should show her unequivocal resistance to the violation of international law by condemning Israel.
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Samir Orfali : A message to geo-strategic pressure lines of Iran: remember the tale of the Gordian Knot. A bold move by Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, or a ‘diplomatic stroke', could reverse Iran's approach and indeed re-establish US leverage in the region.
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Alexandra Dobra: The apparent obligation of all States to ratify the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) faces three antagonistic variables; namely the State sovereignty, the global anarchy and the economic prospects.
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Jorge Benitez: If NATO starts to lose the battle for the political will of its people, it will slowly fade into history. A major public diplomacy effort is needed to convince the democratic constituencies in NATO countries of the alliance’s salience. This is essential to the funding of military efforts in difficult economic times.
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Greg Randolph Lawson: At the end of the Second World War it would have taken a great leap of faith to believe that Great Power conflict would end and that major industrialized nations would not fight amongst themselves. However, this is for the most part what has transpired. Have we seen the last of the balance of power struggles?
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Paul Pass: In spite of the present media attention to the economic problems in Greece, a problem is brewing in the heart of Europe that European and American policymakers would be ill-advised to ignore. The possible break-up of the Belgian state might have severe repercussions on the stability of the European Union and negatively affect the US economy as well. For the sake of future transatlantic relations, the US and Europe should pay close attention to the developments in Brussels.
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