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12th International Summer School "Regional Leaders, Global Challenges: Issues, Interests and Strategies"

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In a world more and more characterized by multipolar structures, stability is an ever more evasive aim. Political theory tells us that multipolar systems are much less stable than bipolar or hegemonic ones. For the next generation of global political leaders it is paramount to understand how tectonic shifts in our present global order will influence the relative position of their own countries. The shifting parameters of rising powers, trends of regional cooperation and integration will set the stage for an emerging new world order where not only states and markets, but increasingly also transnational networks will play an ever more important role. In this sense, we could address networks in a double perspective: in the real world which we try to shape and understand and also in the world of young leaders who will have to shoulder the bulk of work and responsibility in the years and decades ahead.

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Internationale Politik

Summer Edition 2008: NATO at a Crossroads

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The current issue of IP-Global Edition, NATO at a Crossroads, looks at the Atlantic Alliance in the aftermath of the spring summit in Bucharest. Is the nearly 60-year old alliance a European security pact, a global intervention force, a peacekeeping presence, or a US-led coalition of democracies? Should it take on energy security, nation building, cyber warfare, counter-terrorism, or some mixture of these tasks? It is unclear whether the Americans and the Europeans (and the Europeans among themselves) even agree on the nature of the threats they aim to counter, presumably a key prerequisite for a collective security pact. IP-Global Edition takes up these discussions where they were left off in Bucharest.

 

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