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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig by Michael Liebig
Compared with the continuing problems on the “continent,” as the British say, Britain seems to be in good shape. Britain doesn’t belong to the eurozone and doesn’t care much about the next rounds of stressful EU summits in Brussels. Instead, the British prospect is the great spectacle on the occasion of the
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig by Michael Liebig
In my last column, I have already pointed out that IT security was an exciting topic at the Feb. 3-5 Munich Security Conference (MSC). This pertains particularly to the remarks by Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Labs, a leading international company specializing in IT security, and the Gen. Michael Hayden, former head
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig Russia: The “Cold Friend”
by Michael Liebig
On March 4, 2012, presidential elections will be held in Russia. It seems certain that Putin will win, becoming President for a third term, after the previous two terms 2000-2008 and having been Prime Minister 1999-2000 and 2008-2012. The time span in which Putin has been the most
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig By Michael Liebig
Founded in 1962 by Ewald von Kleist, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) has become probably the leading international event debating security policy. Until 1990, then named Wehrkunde conference, the event was an exclusively “trans-Atlantic” affair. But von Kleist recognized early on that the world was moving towards multipolarity and invited also political
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig America: Primaries and Military-Strategic Primacy
by Michael Liebig
January 2012 is the month of key “primaries” in the United States: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida. In the American electoral system, primaries are the procedure to select a candidate for a political office among competing aspirants within a political party. On the Democratic side, there
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig The Neo-Nazi Terror Group “NSU” & the 1980 Oktoberfest Bombing
by Michael Liebig
After November 4, 2011, the German public has experienced a kind of shock wave. The cause wasn’t yet another twist of the “euro crisis”, but the realization that there was something in Germany that wasn’t supposed to exist. Something for which
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig Hein G. Kiessling ISI und R&AW – Die Geheimdienste Pakistans und Indiens Konkurrierende Atommächte, ihre Politik und der internationale Terrorismus Verlag Dr. Köster, Berlin, 2011
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig Lessons to be Learned from “LÜKEX 2011”
by Michael Liebig
For most people in Germany and certainly outside of Germany, the word “LÜKEX” makes no sense. The weird word is an acronym designating a national command post exercise dealing with “disaster situations”. Every second year, the crisis management for different disaster scenarios is being
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig The “Euro Drama” and a Bust on Wall Street
by Michael Liebig
The first week of November 2011 was an eerie one. The mood in many media outlets, the financial markets and political sphere was almost hysterical. There was the tentative climax of the “Greek tragedy” and the beginning of the “Italian drama”. But
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Von Michael Liebig; weitere Beiträge von Michael Liebig finden Sie hier: michaelliebig Helmut Schmidt and Giscard d’Estaing: What Needs to be Done After the Brussels EU Summit
By Michael Liebig
The 50% “haircut” of Greece’s debt was inevitable. Most private creditors had already written off their Greek state bonds by that percentage – or more. The € 440 billion “European Financial Stability Facilty” (EFSF) has gotten the
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