EU relations with "emerging" strategic partners: Brazil, India and South Africa

Abstract: In her speech on the BRICS and other emerging powers on 1 February 2012, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Lady Catherine Ashton, stated that the EU needs "to invest in these countries as strategic partners n a very strong and dynamic, bilateral relationship (...) We need to do that because it is in our interest to do it." The EU's strategic partnerships have been established in an uncoordinated manner; however, this has not been accidental. All of the EU's "emerging" strategic partners carry economic weight, but even more importantly, they have political weight and (potentially) important regional and/or global roles to play. Consequently, they are essential partners for shaping a globalized, interdependent and multipolar world confronted with key challenges and with a need for international cooperation and global governance. They are truly "formative powers" in that they have enough influence to shape the present and coming world order. These cou

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource, 8 S.
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Veröffentlichungsversion
nicht begutachtet

Erschienen in
GIGA Focus International Edition ; Bd. 4

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Hamburg
(wann)
2012
Urheber
Hess, Natalie M.
Beteiligte Personen und Organisationen
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-310526
Rechteinformation
Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Hess, Natalie M.
  • GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Entstanden

  • 2012

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