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Is Geopolitics back? By visiting four important Asian states in April 2014 President Barack Obama gave new momentum to his long-proclaimed pivot to the Pacific region. The gradual drawdown of U.S. interest in Europe poses new challenges to the...
China’s fast-paced economic development and its rise as the global economic power house in the past decades awoke fears – and in part also perceptions of threat – among Western countries, especially the United States which has been afraid of...
American sea power and forward-deployed U.S. naval forces play a crucial role for the defense and security policy of the United States. However, indiscriminate budget cuts, a degree of rebalancing towards the Pacific, some ground-breaking changes in...
According to the official FIFA jargon, soccer is supposed to be an instrument for a better understanding between people and a force for peace. It is also a force with the potential to electrify the masses. Therefore, politicians sometimes like to...
The contribution deals with the beginnings and the first steps of implementation of the „Aktionsplan Zivile Krisenprävention, Konfliktlösung und Friedenskonsolidierung“ of the German government. The grown German engagement for a peaceful world...
The German Government adopted in 2004 an “Action Plan for Civilian Crisis Prevention and Conflict Management”. Members from different parties of the national parliament and civil society actors had pushed for this plan. It was drafted together...
After 10 years, the Action Plan “Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building” is still a worldwide unique instrument. However, it is characterized by obstacles: There is no unifying guiding principle for...