The Security Strategy adopted by the European Council in late 2003 underlines the importance of conflict prevention and civil, but also – wherever necessary – military intervention in weak or failing states. The new Security Strategy recommends that foreign and security policy be more...

The Sachs Report is innovative in that it develops strategies designed to dynamize the economies of the poorest developing countries with ”investments to empower poor people”. It develops and points to approaches for ”pro-poor growth” policies. Yet international development policy would...

Due to both their size and the enormous pace of their growth, China and India constitute a class of their own among the group of anchor countries. In the coming decades the stance that Europe adopts toward these Asian drivers of global change will be no less important than the state of...

A “dangerous climate change” can only be prevented if a post-Kyoto regime is agreed to by the end of 2009 which allows for a global halving of the greenhouse gas emissions until 2050. If thisfails, then in the next decades temperature increases can be expected that will lead to fundamental...

The global economic crisis creates the chance to build a more stable, sustainable and fair global economic governance structure. The financial as well as the climate crisis demonstrate that human ankind is confronted with a growing number of global systemic risks. Guided by the experience gained...

Eight years after its formation at the leaders’ level, the Group of 20 (G20) has consolidated its status as the power centre of global economic governance. The informal club of 19 nation-states plus the European Union has set itself ambitious goals. They want to lead the global economy towards...