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The Rebel Realist
Joschka Fischer
Has the project for European Union reached its end? Is further EU enlargement antagonistic to deeper integration? Should the global community of democracies assume greater responsibility for fixing the world’s problems? How can the Islamic world’s democratic deficit be closed? How dangerous is the threat of a nuclear Middle East? Is an independent EU defense capability compatible with NATO?
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The Chancellor Who Played with Fire
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2012-01-31If Angela Merkel is unlucky, the eurozone crisis will come to a head at the start of the German election year in 2013, rendering moot all previous calculations, because, despite Germans’ frustration with Europe, the electorate would punish severely those who allowed Europe to fail. And Merkel seems willing to do just that.... read Comments: 6 Recommended: 0 Read: 7608
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Europe’s Market-Led Integration
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-12-30Just as former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was brought down not by political opponents, but by jittery investors, it is the markets, not European leaders, that have opened the door to a European fiscal and political union. That is no cause for celebration.... read Comments: 4 Recommended: 0 Read: 13363
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Iran on the Warpath
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-11-28
While Europe remains preoccupied with its own slow-motion crisis, and other global powers continue to be mesmerized by the bizarre spectacle of European officials’ myriad efforts to rescue the euro (and thus the global financial system), clouds of war are massing over Iran once more. Indeed, matters are likely to come to a head in 2012.... read Comments: 18 Recommended: 0 Read: 14308
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Europeanizing Europe
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-10-27The eurozone is at the center of the global financial crisis, because only there, in the realm of the second most important currency after the dollar, does the crisis hit a weak structure rather than a state with real power. Anything less than a United States of Europe will not be powerful enough to prevent the looming disaster.... read Comments: 5 Recommended: 0 Read: 17589
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Which New Middle East?
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-09-23
Regardless of whether democratization in the Middle East succeeds or authoritarian forms of government prevail once again, one fundamental change has already become clear: no one will be able to govern without taking into account domestic public opinion. That fact will be the source of many other changes in the weeks and months ahead.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 15189
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Europe’s Shaky Foundations
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-08-30Slowly, word is getting round – even in Germany – that the financial crisis could destroy the European unification project in its entirety. Indeed, the crisis is beginning to erode the Franco-German and transatlantic foundations – of a post-war European order that has ensured an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity.... read Comments: 7 Recommended: 1 Read: 24376
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Europe’s Sovereignty Crisis
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-07-31
More than ever, the EU must combine greater stability, financial transfers, and mutual solidarity in order to avoid collapsing under the weight of the ongoing sovereign-debt crisis. If EU member states' leaders do not even try, their defeat – and that of Europe – is certain.... read Comments: 5 Recommended: 1 Read: 17333
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Does Europe Have a Death Wish?
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-06-27The European financial crisis is really a political crisis, because EU leaders are unable to decide on the necessary measures. Resolving this crisis requires more Europe and more integration, not less.... read Comments: 10 Recommended: 1 Read: 20734
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A Bomb in Every Reactor
Joschka Fischer Series: The Rebel Realist 2011-04-30
As a rule, the path to nuclear-power status always begins with so-called “civilian” nuclear programs. So, if the world's existing nuclear powers are serious about non-proliferation, they must not only fulfill their obligation to disarm, but should also abandon their own nuclear-energy programs.... read Comments: 4 Recommended: 0 Read: 16819
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