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When, on April 4, 1949, the 12 foreign ministers of NATO's founding membership gathered in Washington, D.C., to sign the North Atlantic Treaty, President Harry Truman gave the defining speech of the hour: "We do not believe that there are blind tides of history which sweep men one way or another,"…

While the world watches Kiev, the Middle East peace process is once again on the verge of collapse. After almost nine months of feverish efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry, we’re now less than a month away from the deadline for an agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. The prospects…

Over the past 20 years, the international response to the genocide in Rwanda has been analyzed and critically reviewed many times. Analysts have focused on how the United Nations and a few crucial member states responded to the genocide, including the United States, France and Belgium. Germany’s…

Deutsche Erfahrungen bei der Wiedervereinigung: Neue Kapazitäten für internationale Friedenseinsätze?…

Als die amerikanische Kongressabgeordnete Patricia Schroeder Ende April 1994 gefragt wurde, warum sich die Vereinigten Staaten nicht engagierter für ein Ende des Mordens in Ruanda einsetzten, antwortete die Demokratin ehrlich: Sie habe Hunderte von Anrufen von Wählern erhalten, die sich um die…

In the case of Germany v Y and Z, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dealt, for the first time, with the meaning of the term "persecution" in the EU Qualification Directive (QD). German judicial practice that led to the CJEU decision had differentiated between the core and the fringe…

Introduction The lack of universal access to modern energy is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Nearly 1.3 billion people worldwide still lack access to electricity; another billion are believed to suffer from intermittent power supply, while more than 2.6 billion rely on hazardous…

The Group of 7 leaders did not mince words in a joint statement on Wednesday. They called the referendum in Crimea a "direct violation of the Constitution of Ukraine" and labeled Moscow's support for Crimea's bid to join the Russia Federation a "violation of international law" not covered by the…

Executive Summary “Fragile” states continue to figure as one of the most significant challenges to the maintenance and promotion of peace and security worldwide. Stabilization, whether defined as the broad promotion of stability, or more narrowly as the management of acute, occasionally chronic…

Zusammenfassung Sogenannte fragile Staaten gelten international als eine der wichtigsten Herausforderungen zur Bewahrung und Förderung von Frieden und Sicherheit. Stabilisierung, ob sehr breit verstanden als Fragilitätsabbau oder enger als Bewältigung akuter, auch dauerhafter Extremzustände von…