Unintended Consequences – Some Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of Germany’s Reunification
October 3, 2010 marked the 20th anniversary of German reunification. The same day, there were Presidential elections in Brazil. Surely, sheer coincidence, but one might also see it as a curious hint at a parallelism of change since 1990. The year of German unification also marked a takeoff point for rising powers like China, India or Brazil. Then, of course, no one saw it that way. German unification ended the bipolar system of two superpowers, it seemed to open up an era of unipolar domination by one superpower... Читать дальше...