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- Getting Ready for Assad’s Fall
- How Germany is helping Syria's opposition plan for an Assad-free future
- After the diplomatic debacle over the decision last year to abstain from a UN Security Council vote on intervention in Libya, Germany's Foreign Office might yet earn some redemption for its active support in helping Syrian opposition leaders plan for what comes after Bashar al-Assad's ouster.
- Category: German Foreign Policy, Syria, Near and Middle East/North Africa
- Germany’s Unlikely New Best Friend
- With France no longer in tune with German thinking, it is time to give British-German relations a boost
- In defeat, Angela Merkel didn’t lose her dry wit. “I didn’t get anything out of it” (“Da hatte ich dann auch nichts von.”), Germany’s chancellor quipped to the press at the recent G8 summit in Camp David—not in reference to the meager results of the top-level meeting, but to a consolation hug she received from British Prime Minister David Cameron after the German team Bayern Munich lost out to the English Chelsea FC in Europe’s Champions League soccer final.
- Category: Economy and Currency, European Union, Germany, Central Europe, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Europe
- Local Angles Everywhere
- The frustrating provincialism of Germany's international news coverage
- During my first internship at a local paper I met a colleague who specialized in finding the “local angle” to every “big,” and not so big, story. If Germany’s evening newscast reported that violence inspired by left-leaning radicals was nationally on the rise, she would go looking for local punk troubles the next day. Had farmers at the other end of Germany grappled with this or that livestock disease, then the mission would be to find out what local farmers had to say about this.
- Category: International Policy/Relations, Germany, Japan, Norway, Northern Europe, Asia, Europe, Western Europe, East Asia
- Incompetent Design
- The incongruent foreign policy of British Conservative David Cameron
- Category: Security, United Kingdom, Western Europe
- The Riddles of the Über-Spinx
- Gordon Brown could well make his own mark on US-UK relations
- For the rest of the world, the “special relationship” between the United Kingdom and the United States—motherland and colony until a controversy over, well, tea brought that to an end in 1773—often looks like a straightforward affair. Don’t these Anglo-Saxons on both sides of the Atlantic share the same language and history? Isn’t the alliance therefore only natural, with the stronger partner telling the weaker what to do?
- Category: Political Culture, Government and Society, United Kingdom, Western Europe, Europe, North America, United States of America