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In the Middle of Nowhere – The OSCE’s Astana Summit
The OSCE’s first Summit since eleven yearsend s with a bitter taste of realpolitical disillusionment. Frankly speaking, none of the pressing issues on the Organization’s agenda was successfully dealt…
Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: political and ethical dilemmas
18.01.2010
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has clarified a bit of the German debate when he characterised the Afghanistan conflict as a “non-international armed conflict”. Indeed, it is a warlike…
Key Challenges for European Policy: The Case of Palestine
Like may of today’s asymmetrical wars, the violent conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will not be resolved by military means. In this case, victory for one side and defeat for the other are…
Goodbye, European Army – A Comment on the Consequences of the German Constitutional Court’s Ruling on the Lisbon Treaty
The Germa Constitutional Court has decided! The political tenor of the unanimous ruling will have long-term repercussions. It remains to be seen whether this is really the end of the European…
Bienvenue Grande Nation: The return of France in NATO’s military integrated structures
The return of France into NATO’s integrated military command structures can be called a second Saint-Malo. In 1998 the British-French Declaration of Saint-Malo paved the way for the establishment of…
End Annapolis – Try a new approach
While on her twentieth flight to the Middle East in early November, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told reporters that Israel and the Palestinians had never before come so close to resolving…