The qualities of a leader by no means determined by gender, but the world would be a better place with more women in leading positions, US political scientist Joseph Nye observes in the daily Público: "Leaders should be viewed less in terms of heroic command than as encouraging participation throughout an organization, group, country, or network. Questions of appropriate style - when to use hard and soft skills - are equally relevant for men and women, and should not be clouded by traditional gender stereotypes. In some circumstances, men will need to act more 'like women'; in others, women will need to be more 'like men.' The key choices about war and peace in our future will depend not on gender, but on how leaders combine hard- and soft-power skills to produce smart strategies. Both men and women will make those decisions. But [Harvard psychologist Steven] Pinker is probably correct when he notes that the parts of the world that lag in the decline of violence are also the parts that lag in the empowerment of women." (09/02/2012)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Joseph S. Nye

Germany is divided over the Greek problem, columnist Giannis Politis concludes in the left-liberal daily Ta Nea, considering the mixed signals reaching Greece from Germany: "There are two Germanys and two recipes for saving Greece. The first we all know. It is advocated by Angela Merkel, her cronies in government and the banks. They treat us like protestant monks: first meting out harsh punishment and humiliations, then offering redemption. … But even the quasi-religious commitment with which the chancellor is pursuing her tough tactics has not borne fruit. Fortunately there is another Germany - that of Helmut Schmidt and his supporters, who are convinced of the European project. Together with important media, this Germany is calling for an end to the farce of the Greece rescue and proposes rebuilding the country with a new Mashall Plan instead. … It's obvious that the present leadership in Germany is not in possession of the only truth." (08/02/2012)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Giannis Politis
Aktualne debaty » Kryzys przygniata Grecję, » Sposoby na wyjście z kryzysu zadłużenia

The current system of a multipolar world is dysfunctional, the defence expert Arlé Malz writes in the liberal-conservative daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung: "The change demanded by Russia, China and India from a unipolar to a polycentric world has become a reality without a sustainable system emerging as a result. This in turn has repercussions on the financial markets, which skid from one crisis to the next in ever shorter cycles. Until now the pragmatic action on the part of all those involved in handling immediate crises has managed to banish the sense of disaster. By contrast creeping risks such as climate change or the global food shortage are put up with, and decisions regarding them are put off. For that reason it would be short-sighted to elevate pragmatic action to the status of a recipe for success. The jostling to establish a sustainable supra-national system for the 21st century must go on. But for the time being not even the contours of such a system can be discerned." (08/02/2012)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Arié Malz

China and India could be the next victims of the euro crisis if they don't revise their economic policies, writes economist Stephen Roach in the business paper Jornal de Negócios: "While China is in better shape than India, neither economy is likely to implode on its own. It would take another shock to trigger a hard landing in Asia. One obvious possibility today would be a disruptive breakup of the European Monetary Union. In that case, both China and India, like most of the world's economies, could find themselves in serious difficulty. ... Seduced by the political economy of false prosperity, the West has squandered its might. Driven by strategy and stability, Asia has built on its newfound strength. But now it must reinvent itself. Japanese-like stagnation in the developed world is challenging externally dependent Asia to shift its focus to internal demand. Downside pressures currently squeezing China and India underscore that challenge. Asia's defining moment could be hand." (05/02/2012)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Stephen Roach
Aktualne debaty » Sposoby na wyjście z kryzysu zadłużenia

The Middle East has still not calmed down since the launch of the freedom movement last year. But it took other democracies up to 200 years to stabilise themselves, Richard Herzinger writes consolingly in the conservative Welt am Sonntag: "Nevertheless it is worth remembering that revolutionary upheavals like those which have gripped the Middle East generally tend to result in many decades of bloody confusion, terrible mistakes and cruel wars. Yet the central problem posed by revolutions has always been how to rein in the violence they generate and curtail it through institutions. The American Revolution was to a certain extent exemplary in achieving this while the terrorism of the French Revolution initially got out of hand - not to mention the Russian Revolution. In total 200 years passed before democracy was firmly established in the Western world. Remembering to think along the long lines of history can at least help us not to despair at the current atrocities unfolding in the Middle East - and to focus on doggedly fighting the worst inhumanities instead of hankering after visions of an ideal democratic future." (05/02/2012)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Polityka bezpieczeństwa / Kryzys / Wojna, » Historia, » Prawa człowieka, » Libia, » Egipt, » Syria
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Richard Herzinger
Aktualne debaty » Świat arabski walczy o wolność

In their negotiations for resolving the European debt crisis the European heads of state and government tend to forget that in the long term Europe's youth will foot the bill, economics professor Bruno Colmant admonishes in the business paper Trends Tendances: "Debts are a mortgage on the prosperity of future generations, indisputably hindering their democratic participation. Consequently our European community will doubtless be confronted with vigorous ideological debates that have been smothered by the favourable economic trend of the past 30 years. The coming years will be marked by increasing tensions between an individualist capitalism and collective forces that campaign against speculation and call for higher taxes and inflationary measures. This conflict will be intensified by the social tensions arising from the already visible unequal distribution of wealth among the generations. Because for all these scenarios the truth is that the young are the victims." (03/02/2012)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Bruno Colmant
Aktualne debaty » Sposoby na wyjście z kryzysu zadłużenia

The Czech Republic's No to the new EU fiscal compact has left the country even more isolated than before, the economist Tomáš Sedláček fears in the liberal business paper Hospodářské noviny: "Our policy, be it that of our president or now increasingly of our government, is fundamentally against everything that starts with E, as in Europe. The No to the fiscal compact is a sad example. And the worst thing is that the pact is perfectly suited to our rulers' own policies. But it was suggested by the EU. Economists and politicians must be shaking their heads in wonder. It is a very courageous act indeed to pass up such a chance for preventing our country from running up debt. ... Do we really believe that with our No we are demonstrating our sovereignty? The US president, strong Germany and proud France must all make compromises and seek allies. How many allies do we have? Fewer and fewer. The number of states that knit their brows in bafflement our behaviour, however, is growing by the day." (02/02/2012)

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Więcej z przeglądu prasy na temat » Polityka UE, » Polityka wewnętrzna, » Czechy, » Europa
Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Tomáš Sedláček
Aktualne debaty » Europa dwóch prędkości

Spain would do well to submit to the austerity policy dictated by Germany, writes the conservative daily ABC: "Europe has banned Keynes by decree and the opponents of austerity are pulling long faces. Like Margaret Thatcher 30 years ago, Angela Merkel has imposed her austerity fundamentalism on that wasteful gene of social democracy that always finds an excuse to spend more: in times of plenty because money abounds and in times of recession to stimulate growth. But the German chancellor is a cautious woman who has been brought up to fear the inflation her nation incubated during the times of the Weimar Republic, the precursor to National Socialism. And the creed of her leadership is implacable: first balance the budget and then we'll see. ... Spain would do well to adapt to this policy; besides, it has no choice. Reforms or bankruptcy: there is no other option. ... Only the economy that keeps the Europe engine running, or in other words Germany, can set the course. ... He who pays the piper calls the tune. Perhaps there's a plan B, but it won't be executed until plan A has been accomplished." (01/02/2012)

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The free-market economy has improved everyone's lives since its beginnings, writes the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, in the liberal Financial Times Deutschland: "During the past century, for example, competitive-market-driven economic growth created resources far in excess of those required to maintain subsistence. That surplus, even in the most aggressively competitive economies such as America's, has been mainly employed to improve the quality of life: advances in health, greater longevity and pension systems that go with it, a universal system of education and vastly improved conditions of work. We have used much of the substantial increases in wealth generated by our market-driven economies to purchase what most would view as greater civility. ... The often-assailed greed and avarice associated with capitalism are in fact characteristics of human nature, not of market capitalism, and affect all economic regimes." (31/01/2012)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Alan Greenspan
Aktualne debaty » Sposoby na wyjście z kryzysu zadłużenia

The participants at the World Economic Forum in Davos devoted part of their discussions to the question of whether the science of economics has played a part in the current economic crisis. But instead of pinning the blame on faulty economic analyses politicians should first tidy up their own back yards, writes economist Rolf Weder in the conservative Basler Zeitung: "For years economists have been pointing out that where property rights are lacking, such as with globally owned goods like the world's oceans and climate, the market cannot function correctly. And so economists have constantly admonished politicians to introduce rules on a global level. For their part, however, the politicians have done just the opposite. In this way the global fishing industries have been subsidised with billions upon billions, rather than being taxed so as to prevent the over-fishing of the oceans. In my view the ladies and gentlemen present at Davos should devote much more of their time to such matters, rather than eternally discussing the role of our discipline in the debt and euro crisis." (31/01/2012)

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Wszystkie dostępne teksty » Rolf Weder
Aktualne debaty » Sposoby na wyjście z kryzysu zadłużenia