Fragile states / Comment
For a more progressive transatlantic agenda
01/10/2008 By Jean-Paul Marthoz
Black clouds are hovering over the last days of the Bush administration. In order to face up to all the crises, from Wall Street to Waziristan, there is an urgent need for a responsible and dedicated engagement of the U.S. and the EU.
The world has to confront a host of issues head-on: climate change, growing inequality, state failure, mass atrocities, transnational criminal networks. This can only be done if both the EU and the U.S. adopt a more progressive agenda. Progressism is in fact the new name for realism.
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Bio author: Jean-Paul Marthoz
Jean-Paul Marthoz is chair of GRIP (European Institute on Peace and Security Studies), professor of global journalism at the Université catholique de Louvain, and foreign affairs columnist for Le Soir (Brussels).
