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

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 8 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion
nicht begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
GIGA Focus International Edition ; Bd. 4

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Hamburg
(when)
2012
Creator
Hess, Natalie M.
Contributor
GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-310526
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Hess, Natalie M.
  • GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies - Leibniz-Institut für Globale und Regionale Studien

Time of origin

  • 2012

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