Bulletin n. 3/2008
February 2009
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • De Grossouvre Henri
    The NATO Summit in Bucharest: origins and consequences for Europe of a historic US defeat
    in World Affairs , Vol. 12, n. 3, Autumn ,  2008
    For the first time since NATO’s creation, the USA was defeated at an alliance summit with regard to a priority goal it had set—the inclusion of Ukraine and Georgia in NATO. That is the most notable fact about the Bucharest Summit that history will record. The summit also revealed increased tensions between the US and Russia accompanied by new intra-European disagreements, which narrowed the EU’s scope for action. HENRI DE GROSSOUVRE concludes that the EU is indeed paralysed by a new East–West crisis whose most visible manifestation is Moscow’s recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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