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April 8, 2012 | Fostering Real NATO-EU Cooperation through an EU Structural Defense Fund

Georgi Ivanov: Creating an EU Structural Defense Fund is the key to NATO’s Smart Defense initiative. This will ease the fiscal commitment for NATO to do more with less, while providing states with the incentive to spend more on defense without meeting their 2 percent of GDP obligations.

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November 14, 2011 | Why Europe Must Up Its Game in Asia

Fraser Cameron: America’s new Pacific engagement should be a wake-up call to Europeans. It is both a signal that they have been neglecting an Asia policy and a reminder that the EU must be more serious about providing for its own defense and asserting its influence as a populous and economically powerful union.

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June 8, 2009 | Social States: The Myth of the Atlantic Divide

Everyone is familiar with the idea of a “wide
Atlantic” and the alleged fundamental differences between the US and Europe:
the Americans believe in the unbridled free market, while the Europeans only
accept it against their will and try to curtail its excesses; true social
policy exists only in Europe; lack of universal health insurance in the US
causes many to die young or spend the

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November 5, 2008 | "China's Way: Firm, Gradual, Holistic"

China’s economy is changing from a centrally planned to a market oriented system. ++ Its GDP has increased tenfold compared to 1978, not without creating causes of concern. ++ The government faces “imbalance of economy, overinvestment in tradable sectors and lack of development of environmental sectors.” ++ China has to reform its government structure and support a market

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October 7, 2008 | China's Financial Policies Harm Domestic Growth

To date China can, through financial repression - state regulation, which undermines market mechanisms in the financial system - sustain the costs of an undervalued currency. However, by adhering to these financial policies, China’s economy may soon endure the resulting backlash: low level interest rates, which drive excessive credit demand, a weak domestic demand and therefore a large dependence

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