12th Annual Foreign Policy Conference

The historic turning point of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 accelerated a transitional phase that has redrawn the global political map and left an enduring mark on world affairs. The new world order, which had slowly taken shape after 1989, has since been marked by a rapid transfer of economic and political power from the Western to the Eastern hemisphere. In the last decade, the subsequent relative loss of U.S. power has become just as evident as the rise of large emerging nations and the ever more assertive demands of new regional powers.

Developments over the last few years support the historical experience that the rise of new powers is often accompanied by phases of instability and geopolitical rivalry. The future international role that Europe will play remains particularly unclear. Without a European Union as a strong foreign policy actor and a renewed transatlantic partnership, European powers run the risk of becoming marginal actors in the global developments of the 21st century. This holds true all the more in the face of the political uprisings in the Arab world which are unfolding in our neighborhood.

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