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The General Election: What to Look For

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After the drama, color, and passion of the primary election campaign, the epic battle between Hillary and Obama and the remarkable comeback of John McCain, even political Washington is catching its collective breath. With the conventions to come in late August—early September, there is just time enough now to catch up on sleep, fund raise like crazy, and prepare for the dash to the finish line in November. This rare political lull strikes me as the perfect time to gauge what we should all be looking for as the general election campaign unwinds.

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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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