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Prof. Shlomo Avineri erläutert anhand historischer Beispiele, unter welchen Bedingungen den USA eine erfolgreiche Intervention im Nahen Osten gelang und bewertet das Treffen von Annapolis in diesem Kontext

Eine Analyse der Ergebnisse der Konferenz und der Perspektiven. Erst die kommenden Monate werden zeigen, ob das Treffen von Annapolis ein Erfolg war. Es gibt positive Elemente und ungeklärte Punkte, grunsätzlich bleibt die Stimmung aber positiv.

Über die Neigung arabischer Kommentator, pessimistisch zu sein, nur um Recht zu behalten

The international community has to put pressure on Russian, the Georgian and South Ossetian parties to de-escalate the situation as soon as possible. Only this could avoid the recurrence of the bloody events of early 1990s in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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Th EU needs to seriously address its democratic deficit and the disillusionment that many Europeans feel for the Union. Dealing with these issues will surely not be an easy task but it will, without a doubt, enrich European democracy and the very ideals that we stand for and wish to promote in the world.

The global energy system is undergoing a structural crisis. At its heart lies the need to restrain climatic change while at the same time dealing with energy security in an era of rapidly growing demand.

Independent of the EU’s internal debates on reform and enlargement the extension of co-operation beyond the borders of the EU will remain pressing. An updated European Neighbourhood Policy could enable the EU to engage its neighbours flexibly, keeping options open for closer future integration.

Regional foundations close to the Green Party were set up in the early 1980s. In 1983 there was a first effort to found a national foundation - but it came to nothing. Later in the 1980s three national foundations were established: The feminist Frauenanstiftung, the Buntstift federation of regional foundations, and the Cologne-based Heinrich Böll Foundation. The work of these organisations was later co-ordinated by the umbrella organisation Regenbogen. In 1988 the Green Party recognised Regenbogen as the foundation allied to the party. This meant that from then on the foundation qualified for government funding.

Two journalists who participated in a media workshop in September/October 2005, organized by the Lebanese American University and supported by the Beirut office of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, were murdered within less than a year by gunmen in the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Both Sarwa Abdul-Wahab and Sahar Hussein Ali Al-Haydari were passionate journalists who lived and died to recount their country’s agonizing story.