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Ausgabe 4-2004

Themenschwerpunkt: Transatlantische Beziehungen / Transatlantic Relations
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Themenschwerpunkt: Transatlantische Beziehungen

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Renewing the Atlantic Partnership

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Dissonanzen im transatlantischen Bündnis überwinden
Friedbert Pflüger
The discord in transatlantic relations, erupted over Iraq, has brought older and more fundamental differences between Europe and the United States into focus. It also uncovered diverging developments and longstanding misunderstandings which will not be overcome quickly. In talking about a »Reconstruction of the West« and a »new Trans-Atlanticism«, even German Foreign Minister Fischer admitted how heavily this relationship is burdened but stayed short of offering remedies. This essay points out several ways to strengthen the German-American relations and the transatlantic partnership in general. Strengthening NATO, living up to the European Security Strategy, joint responsibility, building on common tasks, evolving the transatlantic economic linkage and promoting publicly the value of the partnership will help resolve the dissonances in this historic alliance.
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Die Krise der westlichen Allianz und die Krise des Multilateralismus
Joachim Krause
Since the Iraqi crisis from 2002/2003 the Atlantic Alliance has been put into question. Various authors argue that the Western Alliance has lost its substance and is becoming an empty shell. Their main argument is that the current crisis has been caused by US unilateralism, which was said to be the direct consequence of conservative and neo-conservative Republican policy strategies. This article is arguing that the causes for the transatlantic problems are considerably deeper and are preceding the Bush-Administration. These problems surely have been aggravated by the diplomacy of the Bush- Administration, but they won’t go away if the next election would bring about a Democratic Administration. Much of the criticism within the scholarly debate is proceeding from a simplified theoretical approach that tends to equate multilateralism with international order. It is argued in this article that one rather has to look at different expectations regarding international order on both sides of the Atlantic. While in the US multilateralism usually has been judged from its merit in terms of problem solving, Europeans have tended to value rather the procedural aspects of multilateralism (i.e. the selfbinding effect). The most important thing is to overcome this crisis by looking for new and reformed ways of multilateralism that hold the promise of both solving international problems and binding the U.S. Reforming NATO in a way that it might take over a major responsibility for international security might be a good starting point for such a political strategy.
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Der Strategiewandel amerikanischer Außenpolitik und die Folgen für die transatlantischen Beziehungen
Peter Rudolf
Under the presidency of George W. Bush, changes in American grand strategy have, in effect, amounted to a rather consistent new paradigm of hegemonic unilateralism: the preservation of unipolarity, i.e., the maintenance of military supremacy regardless of potential threats and adversaries; a heightened perception of intolerable threats, which has led to the rejection of containment as the fundamental concept of security policy with respect to the new threats; the attempted legitimization of preventive war against states that support terrorism in whatever form, and the emphasis on strategic independence. Those changes, which culminated in the Iraq war, have accentuated structural problems in the transatlantic relationship.
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Zwischen Widerstand und Opposition: Gewaltordnungen in Palästina
Margret Johannsen
n the course of the al-Aqsa Intifada, the Palestinian Authority’s monopoly on the use of force has eroded. However, the use of violence is not the sole defining feature of sub-state actors engaged in the struggle against Israel. The national- religious Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas and Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades represent social orders which fulfill elementary social functions such as providing economic sustenance, controlling force and securing legitimacy. By this means, they acquire stability and are able to influence the dynamics of the conflict. Whether society continues to accept these violence-based social orders nevertheless depends on how it judges the prospects of a political solution and an acceptable settlement of the conflict.
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Wer hat Angst vor George Soros?
Andrea Berg
This article analyses relations between the rulers of the three Central Asian states, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, and international organisations such as the Open Society Institute and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It undertakes to show how the rulers' behaviour patterns and strategies with regard to the activities of international organizations serve to maintain their hold on power. The article focuses especially on developments in Central Asia since the recent transfer of power in Georgia, which has been viewed with concern by leaders in Central Asia. It asks how this event could influence the forthcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in Central Asia.
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