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Dominique Moisi
Can American global leadership be replaced or shared? How will Europe’s large and growing Muslim communities affect European policy toward the Islamic world? Will Russia’s re-emergence divide the West? Will China’s rise to superpower status make Europe rue its longing for a multi-polar world?
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The Kremlin Temptation
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer 
2010-03-15France’s recent sale of four powerful Mistral-class warships to Russia has evoked comparisons with Germany's go-it-alone strategy toward the Kremlin. Indeed, European leaders may ultimately be doing the same thing, but they are all doing it separately, as competitors vying for Russian favor rather than as partners within a supposedly tight-knit Union.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 1255
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The Final Decline of the West
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer 2010-02-15
By mid-century, the Western world is expected to represent only 12% of the world’s population and only around 30% of global output, down from 68% in 1950. We are entering a new historical cycle, in which there will be proportionally fewer Westerners, more Africans and Middle Easterners, and – with greater relevance economically and strategically – many more Asians.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 4503
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Europe’s Fearful Natives
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer
2010-01-14More than ever before in recent decades, fear is becoming the dominant force in European politics. And it is not an abstract, undefined fear: it is above all the fear of the non-European “other,” perceived by a growing numbers of “white” Europeans as a threat to their identities and ways of life, if not their physical security and jobs.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 0 Read: 3706
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India Remembered
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer
2009-12-14
The time has come for India to recognize that with power comes responsibility, and to act like the indispensable nation that it has become. The period when India was forgotten is at an end, and with it the period when India could forget about the world.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 3434
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The Eternal Wall
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer
2009-11-07Walls designed to keep people in or out – whether they are in Berlin, Nicosia, Israel, or Korea – are always the product of fear. Ultimately, they represent the realities that lay behind their construction – realities that, unfortunately, later generations may be unable or unwilling to change.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 5445
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The Past is Never Past
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer 2009-10-15
A nation’s relationship with its past is crucial to its present and its future, to its ability to “move on” with its life, or to learn from its past errors and not repeat them. There are many ways to make that relationship a healthy one – and many more that can make it a pathological one, as the Balkans, Spain, and China have all shown... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 4019
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The Democracy Paradox
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer 2009-09-14Elections stolen in Iran, disputed in Afghanistan, caricatured in Gabon: these and other examples do not so much mark the global advance of democracy as demonstrate the absence of the rule of law. While elections that lead to illiberal outcomes, and even to despotism, are not a new phenomenon - witness Hitler's rise to power - the West has yet to address the problem effectively.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 5170
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The Return of Franco-German Leadership
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer 2009-08-21
Whoever wins September's parliamentary election in Germany, the time has come once again for a major Franco-German initiative. Regardless of their economic conditions or their confidence – or lack of it – in each other, France and Germany are more than ever jointly responsible for the future, if not the very survival, of the European project.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 5740
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One World, One Europe
Dominique Moisi Series: European Observer 2009-07-21Europeans would be taken more seriously if they have one representative in the spectrum of multilateral institutions – starting with the UN Security Council. Indeed, in today’s global age, with the rise of emerging powers and the relative decline of the West, the only credible Europe is a Europe that can speak and be seen as one.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 6588
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