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Editorial Team: Though there have already been 15 NATO casualties in January 2010, the outlook on the ground is improving. According to a recent poll conducted by BBC and its affiliates throughout Afghanistan, support for foreign troops is on the rise; and the number of Taliban supporters has drastically fallen. Is the ISAF mission moving in the right direction?
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Caroline Hammargren: In Europe, traditional gender roles have changed considerably over the last 50 years: the majority of women have entered the workforce and men have started taking part in child-rearing. Yet, paternity leave has not followed the modernization and domestication of European fathers and is not up to date with men’s new role in society.
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Pavol Demes: Practical "thinkers" are among the most effective private actors contributing to the EU policy debate. Having a variety of backgrounds, they have the advantage of developing practical policy suggestions. Most importantly, think tanks are helping the EU to critically rethink its own development as well as its relationship to the international order.
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Timor Sharan: Seventeen out of twenty-four proposed Afghan cabinet ministers were rejected by parliament in a clear reaction to Karzai's capitulation to international pressure. How will the President balance his commitments to local power-brokers as well as international demands to stem corruption?
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Heinrich Bonnenberg: It is time to look past the close-minded approaches to climate protection, which are being promoted by self-interested groups. Free market competition is being stifled by ‘eco-despots’ to the detriment of our future. A new global ethic must be developed that takes into account the physical demand of the world’s population.
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Brahma Chellaney: Never before have China, India, and Japan been powerful at the same time, yet now they make up the strategic trio that is central to the region's future. Asia houses the fastest growing markets, fastest-rising military expenditures, and the most volatile hot spots. Thus, these main three actors must find a way to reconcile their interests in Asia.
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Abbas Daiyar: The Taliban and al-Qaeda are achieving their goal of asserting a false sense of their strength, and are increasingly finding wider-outlets to disseminate their message. Furthermore, the US intelligence apparatus is failing to handle the situation. A strong local media campaign to counter that of the terrorists is urgently needed.
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Sebastian Bruns: A renaissance of NATO’s maritime dimension is necessary in this globalized world, where piracy can wreak havoc on trade and international security. The new strategic concept must take into account the unique and increasing role that waterways will play in the twenty-first century.
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Tobias P. Fella: Competing regulatory rules and policies pose a major challenge to transatlantic relations and to the further development of the multilateral trade order. The EU and US must institutionalize a framework, which supports enhanced liberalization, thus preventing the development of competing regionalism.
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Editorial Team: President Obama has moved away from his predecessor's 'War on Terror,' which is now coming under fire. According to conservative's in the United States, these new, 'weaker' policies are to blame for the attempted Christmas Day bombing.
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