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ERIC HELLEINER
Crisis and Response. Five Regulatory Agendas in Search of an Outcome

We can identify five main regulatory agendas emerging from the current crisis to date. The first calls upon regulators to strengthen existing international regulations, and the second intends to reform them. The third seeks to resist the push for the re-regulation of financial markets by governments. The fourth calls for greater controls on cross-border movements of capital, and the fifth advocates a decentralization of financial regulation.

 

JACQUES SAPIR
From Financial Crisis to Turning Point. How the US »Subprime Crisis« Turned into a Worldwide One and will Change the Global Economy

The current crisis has been labeled »financial« and there is some truth in that, as the securitization process was a key factor. However, the roots of the crisis are far from being purely financial. Rather we are witnessing the collapse of a specific model of capitalism, as well as the breakdown of the post-Bretton Woods international monetary order. The stakes are obviously high and this crisis is to be a major turning point in the twenty-first century.

 

DAMIEN HELLY
Africa, the EU and R2P: Towards Pragmatic International Subsidiarity?

The EU has to play a role in implementing the »responsibility to protect« doctrine. In Africa the EU has tried to do a lot in conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction. But current EU engagement is not enough if it is not backed up by strong political will from African leaderships.

 

LAUREN PLOCH
US Africa Command: A More »Active« American Approach towards Addressing African Security Challenges?

In February 2007, the US announced its intention to create a new unified combatant command in Africa (AFRICOM), to promote US security objectives in the region. The premise behind AFRICOM’s establishment, is that stable and secure states would be more capable of deterring terrorism, proliferation and crime. But African perceptions of the new command have been mixed.

 

STEPHEN MARKS
Chinas Sicherheitspolitik in Afrika

Chinas Rolle in Afrika wird im Westen zumeist als Bedrohung des auf westlicher Vorherrschaft beruhenden Status quo dargestellt. Doch im Gegensatz zu den USA und anderen Mächten fehlt in der chinesischen Afrikapolitik eine militärische Komponente. Dies nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil in der Konzeption der chinesischen Entscheidungsträger nationale Sicherheit nicht in erster Linie militärisch definiert ist.

 

TIM MURITHI
The African Union’s Transition from Non-Intervention to Non-Indifference: An Ad hoc Approach to the Responsibility to Protect?

There exist linkages between the African Union’s doctrine of non-indifference and the notion of the »responsibility to protect.« The AU has sought to implement its policy of non-indifference through its commitment to promote peace in Burundi, Darfur, Somalia, and Comoros, as well as through the recent intervention efforts in Zimbabwe.

 

RIK COOLSAET
The Social Democratic Malaise and World Politics

European social democracy will recover relevance only if it proves able to embody a new social project and to negotiate a new social contract. The latter must combine, as in the past, safeguarding individuals from the risks against which they cannot protect themselves and uniting people by offering a perspective on progress in the area which constitutes the world’sgreatest challenge – global warming.

LUKE MARCH
Far Left Parties in Europe: From Marxism to the Mainstream

The far left is an increasingly stabilized, consolidated, and permanent actor on the EU political scene, although it remains absent in specific countries and in much of former communist Eastern Europe. It is now approaching a post cold-war high in several countries and becoming the principal challenge to mainstream social democratic parties.

KOMMENTAR / COMMENT

FJODOR LUKJANOW
Russische Zwischenbilanz nach zwei Krisen

REZENSIONEN / BOOK REVIEWS
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Irans Atomprogramm: Können wir lernen, die Bombe zu lieben?

VOLKER PERTHES:
Iran – Eine politische Herausforderung. Die prekäre Balance von Vertrauen und Sicherheit

BERND W. KUBBIG (IN ZUSAMMENARBEIT MIT SVEN-ERIC FIKENSCHER):
Die Iranpolitik der Regierung Bush ab 2005. Brüche – rivalisierende Konzepte – Durchsetzungschancen

KARIM SADJADPOUR:
Iran: Is Productive Engagement Possible?

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DORIS DIALER:
Die EU-Entwicklungspolitik im Brennpunkt. Eine Analyse der politischen
Dimension des Cotonou-Abkommens
(Axel Biallas)
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RONALD DEIBERT / JOHN PALFREY / RAFAL ROHOZINSKI / JONATHAN ZITTRAIN (Hrsg.):
Access Denied. The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering
(Daniel Oppermann)