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Europe’s Choice - Podiumsdiskussion zum 5-jährigen Jubiläum des ECFR - 30 May 12

Wie kann Europa neue Anreize schaffen um Regierungen und Bürger von europäischen Lösungen für die Reform von Politik, Wirtschaft und der europäischen Institutionen zu überzeugen? 


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BRICS may find common ground, but India must stand up for itself

By Parag Khanna - 29 Mar 12

This week's BRICS summit may be a shop window for the potency of the world's rapidly rising global powers, but on closer inspection there is a startling lack of unity between them.

 

Stop fretting about Beijing as a global policeman

By Jonas Parello-Plesner & Parag Khanna - 05 Jan 12

Last year was a tipping point in China's approach to the world, and expectations are rising that Beijing will shoulder ever greater responsibility on the global stage. But if China joins the US as a world policeman, should the rest of us be worried?

 

Why China wants a G3 world

By Mark Leonard & Parag Khanna - 12 Sep 11

Despite the fashionable talk about BRICS and the G2 of Washington and Beijing, we really now live in a G3 world that combines US military power and consumption, Chinese capital and labour, and European rules and technology.

 

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In the Press

Los Angeles Times
23 May 12

Sebastian Dullien is quoted in an article on the euro crisis

Presseurop
22 May 12

ECFR's policy brief on China and Germany is discussed

Rzeczpospolita
22 May 12

Thomas Klau quoted on Hollande's foreign policy, icluding policy towards Poland

TO BHMA
22 May 12

In an interview, Thomas König talks about China and Europe ralations

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