Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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Frank-Walter Steinmeier is President of Germany.

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Reviving Arms Control in Europe
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Reviving Arms Control in Europe

Aug 26, 2016 Frank-Walter Steinmeier proposes measures to bridge the widening divide between the West and Russia.

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Unifying the Struggle Against ISIS
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Unifying the Struggle Against ISIS

Jan 6, 2016 Frank-Walter Steinmeier calls for a three-pronged strategy to fight Islamist terrorism.

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Helmut Schmidt’s World
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Helmut Schmidt’s World

Nov 13, 2015 Frank-Walter Steinmeier holds up Germany's former chancellor as an example of leadership for our own tumultuous age.

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The DNA of German Foreign Policy
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The DNA of German Foreign Policy

Feb 25, 2015 Frank-Walter Steinmeier defines the three main external challenges facing Europe's largest economy.

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Towards an Asia-Europe Partnership

Towards an Asia-Europe Partnership

Nov 15, 2007 Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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Mark Leonard

As the nominee to serve as the EU's next High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell will have an opportunity to update Europe's approach to foreign policy. Chief among the challenges facing the bloc is to reassert its own sovereignty in an age of great-power politics.

Is Politics Getting to the Fed?

Robert J. Barro

In the early 1980s, the chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, was able to choke off runaway inflation because he was afforded the autonomy necessary to implement steep interest-rate hikes. Today, the Fed is clearly under unprecedented political pressure, and it is starting to show.