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Frank O'Donnell: On January 14, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists repositioned its ‘Doomsday Clock’ by only one minute, from five to six minutes to midnight. This incremental adjustment symbolizes the global uncertainty regarding the future of the nonproliferation regime.
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Jerome Grossman: A world without nuclear weapons would do much in terms of security, but more so, it would enhance and protect the superpower status of the United States. Giving up nuclear weapons and accepting US hegemony may be the price humanity must pay to avert the threat of total annihilation.
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The Editorial Team: A virtual conference 4-9 Feb, featuring online keynote contributions from world leaders and participants logging on from around the globe. NGOs, civil society, security & defence practitioners, leading political and military figures, think tanks, academics, and journalists will interact online to build concrete solutions together.
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Tobias P. Fella: The Obama Administration returns to the logic of liberal hegemony. Nowadays, global
challenges require an approach based on multilateral cooperation, smart power and the acknowledgment of security interdependence. The new American Grand Strategy precisely takes all of them into account.
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Joschka Fischer: Europeans may be too tired and divided to play a significant role in world politics, which could have dire consequences for Europe in this time of global realignment. But even if Europe abdicates its global role, the EU cannot forget about order within its immediate neighborhood. The Balkans are a part of Europe, and Europeans must solve the region’s problems.
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Christian E. Rieck: The Bush administration's spin doctors are doing their best to ensure that history will reflect kindly upon the 43rd president's legacy. However, like another beleaguered Republican administration, the actual achievements undermined the legitimacy which the United States clearly needs now.
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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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