British Foreign Secretary David Miliband was right in his recent LSE speech: there is nothing inevitable about globalization. The current crisis puts its continuation into doubt, as protectionist calls grow louder and the policy response by major international players remains somewhat confused. It is important to recognize that the current juncture is crucial, and that [...]
It is frequently mentioned that Russia’s relations with the European Union (EU) are those “of strategic partners”. They share a common European civilization and common values. The practical significance of this phrase though is ambiguous, as there is no common meaning inside and outside the EU.
On 6 March 2009, ELIAMEP organized a lecture delivered by [...]
The visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Ankara last week hid a pleasant surprise for Turkish diplomacy. It was announced that the US President Barack Obama would visit Turkey in the framework of his first visit to Europe next month. After visiting London to attend the G-20 Summit and Prague to participate [...]
Since the Great Depression and World War II, the domestic policies of most West European countries have been based on a “psychology of scarcity”— a belief that resources and opportunities are limited, and that to promote fairness, government policies must allocate or redistribute them. The idea of a national government regulating and otherwise intervening in [...]
Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP), is undoubtedly the dominant political force in contemporary Turkey’s political scene. It has been so since 2002 when it first came to power and keeps strengthening its position steadily ever since. It is indicative to mention that in 2002 it managed to attract a 34.43% [...]
ELIAMEP: One of the main objectives of the Czech Presidency is to promote implementation of the conclusions of G20 Economic Summit in Washington and those of the December European Council. However, Mr. Topolánek has warned of the risks of “excessive regulation and protectionism“. What kind of concrete measures to deal with financial crisis are likely [...]
What follows are miscellaneous ideas. They reflect personal convictions based on dedicated and engaged observation of the events in Israel/Palestine since almost two decades. They do not reflect necessarily arguments that are sustained by facts and data but rather express opinions that may be subject to future revision and re-consideration. The objective of this contribution [...]
Thucydides understood the paradox of how defense could be considered aggressive more than 2400 years before the first nuclear explosion over Hiroshima.
Most Greek city-states did not have impregnable walls protecting them. Mutual vulnerability was already functioning as a deterrent to substantial warfare. No city-state could attack another without suffering painful retaliation. Each city-state, even the [...]
There is no doubt left: it is the worst crisis of global capitalism, at least since the 1930s. The International Monetary Fund forecasts the harshest global recession of the last sixty years. The “masters of the universe”, Wall Street’s golden boys and their indolent regulatory authorities, could have hardly made a worse mess.
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