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Kind Words, Cruise Missiles, and Everything in Between. The Use of Power Resources in U.S. Policies towards Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus 1989–2008

Date de publication
02 November 2017
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According to realist premises, the United States has an interest in remaining the world's only superpower, thus creating the need to manage and maintain unipolarity. The pursuit of this grand strategy, however, required the U.S. to adapt its various strategies to individual states. Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus have played very different roles.

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The German landscape of foundations and think tanks.

Date de publication
18 July 2017
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The number of crises we face is rising, due to failing states, wars and armed conflicts, poverty and lack of good governance in many countries. State and society are constantly confronted with new challenges. These crises occur simultaneously and at an ever faster pace. 

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Foreign Policy Challenges for the Next French President

Date de publication
31 March 2017
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France’s current presidential campaign has created an unprecedented situation fuelled by revelations and a total absence of restraint, but it has not truly taken account of the disruptions of the last year: Brexit, the attempted coup in Turkey, the election of Donald Trump, the recapturing of Aleppo by Bashar al-Assad, Xi Jinping’s declarations about “economic globalization”, or the behavior of North Korea. The debate, or rather its absence, can be looked at in two ways.

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Japan and France: Slowly but Surely Moving Forward on Security Cooperation

Date de publication
06 February 2017
Accroche

Despite being geographically distant, France and Japan share a number of converging interests.

India’s Act East policy: strategic implications for the Indian Ocean

Date de publication
22 November 2016
Accroche

Since the Modi government came to power in June 2014, it has invested diplomatic capital in announcing the transformation of India’s ‘Look East’ policy into a new ‘Act East’ policy. 

Middle East, the new "Great Game"

Date de publication
06 June 2016
Accroche

Will a divided Middle East become the center of a new “Great Game”? The world’s global powers are aligned in it: the United States, falsely tempted by retraction; Russia, establishing its position in an unexpected state of play, France, destabilized by the contradictions of its own policy… In addition are tussles for regional hegemony between Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.

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The Western Balkans : a touchstone for German and European foreign policy

Date de publication
24 May 2016
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Germany’s policy towards the Western Balkans is marked by continuous commitment that put different emphasis in different phases : reconstruction, stabilisation, consolidation of rule of law and market economy as well as member state-building.
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Migrations in Africa: Another Look

Date de publication
02 March 2016
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Migration in Africa is a major concern, but largely for Africans alone. To adequately study the question of international migration, one must look beyond Europe’s current predicament. Through its dossier on “Migrations in Africa: Another Look”, this issue of Politique étrangère examines a number of factors that determine migration movements, how states in Africa attempt to manage the significant problem of internal migration, the difficulties of integrating migrant workers into their host societies, and the false pretenses of Euro-African agreements on readmission.

A Time of Change for Algeria’s Foreign Policy

Date de publication
01 September 2015
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Having been formed in large part by the legacy of the post-independence diplomatic process, by forced withdrawal during the civil war and fixation on a few regional issues, Algerian diplomacy has to redefine itself in a rapidly changing world.

Challenges ahead for Global Europe

Date de publication
28 January 2014
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The year ahead will be critical in determining the European Union’s standing on the global stage. 

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