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February 13, 2009 | Reining in the Nation State

Mansur Seddiqzai: Nation states threaten to only further dominate local and regional organizations in the future. A decentralized system of global governance which incorporates regional associations is required if disorder and crises are to be prevented.

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January 22, 2009 | Unipolarity's Days Are Numbered

Yam Ki Chan: The era of US unipolarity is coming to an end. The international order is heading towards multipolarity or non-polarity. To manage the upcoming challenges, the UN Security Council, and particularly the US, must take leadership to strengthen the United Nations and increase financial interdependence.

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November 28, 2008 | Obama's Multipolar Moment

Wess Mitchell: President-elect Obama will be the first president facing the reality of global multipolarity. In view of the intricate international agenda that is challenging US policy, Obama must break with the unipolar mentality of President Bush. He must distance himself from his predecessors bipolar approaches and adjust US foreign policy to the actuality of a multipolar world.

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October 30, 2008 | The Rise of the Rest

Wolfgang Nowak: America is no longer up to shouldering the world’s crises. But who is going to take its place? And how do the new global powers imagine the future world order? Foresight, a project of the Alfred Herrhausen Society, asks thinkers and policy makers from the emerging and existing powers for their thoughts and proposals.

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May 10, 2008 | 'The Godfather' Doctrine

John C. Hulsman and A. Wess Mitchell: Coppola’s film offers lessons in diplomacy that we can’t refuse. Rather than the liberal institutionalist and neoconservative policies of the last two decades, the next US administration should adopt a flexible realist approach to deal with the challenges of a multipolar world.

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September 24, 2007 | What Is France's Place In The World?

Dominique Moisi: France should come to terms with the present century and come back into Europe. I have a few answers to the question that went unasked in the recent French presidential election campaign, and seems to have gone unconsidered by the French people.

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September 21, 2007 | NATO Is Regional For A Reason

Nikolas Kirrill Gvosdev: I reject Rudolph Giuliani’s call to expand NATO membership to other, non-Western democracies. Adding states like Australia or India to “globalize” NATO would undermine its original and enduring purpose: collective security through Article 5.

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September 12, 2007 | US and EU "Focused Like a Laser Beam" on Global Challenges

John Koenig: The transatlantic relationship is more complex—and more vital—than ever before. Responding to Egon Bahr’s article, I note that NATO is and should remain rooted in the transatlantic community.

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September 12, 2008 | Wake up and Smell the Multilateralism

The unipolar moment after the Cold War passed as quickly as it emerged. ++ The new US president will suddenly see some decisions also being made in Beijing, Moscow, and Europe. ++ A league of democracies would be nonsense in the current geopolitical mess. ++ A “for-or-against”-the-US view would bring some definition to new poles but it would be more flexible than Bush depicted. ++ America’s

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June 27, 2008 | Fear of Globalization is Rising in the West

Once upon a time in the West, the notion of globalization brought to mind new commercial outlets, the international exchange of goods and new post-industrial job opportunities. Yet, the integration of highly populated emerging economies, China and India in particular, has modified the circumstances of both Europeans and Americans. Ever more people on either side of the Atlantic now associate

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