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...Europe. Over the next five years, what will Europe do? No. 1, a new diplomatic service. That means a face for Europe, across the world, engaging. Second, Europe has to be a more effective operator in its neighborhood: we have to look at what we do in the western Balkans, Bosnia, what we do after the Ukrainian elections with the new government, looking at our relationship with Russia...
...absent," wrote Grant in his essay, provocatively titled "Is Europe Doomed to Fail as a Power?" Lucio Caracciolo, editor of Limes, one of Italy's leading foreign policy magazines, says the problem is a Cold War hangover. The post-World War II period was a golden age for Western Europe, a time of reconstruction under the U.S. security umbrella, he argues. When it ended, Europe went into shock. "We're in denial," Caracciolo says. "We see that the Americans are not interested - to put it mildly - in our interests, and we put our head in the sand." Europe "happily decides...
...COMPANY: Septwolves SECTOR: Garments REVENUE IN 2008: $242 million THE LESSON: Western design must adapt...
...When Zhou Shaoxiong decided to produce a domestic line of menswear in 1990, Western designs were in universal demand. Zhou was well versed in foreign style - at his Fujian factory, he had been producing export garments for five years, and the early designs of his own line, Septwolves, were almost identical. At the time, Chinese manufacturers seeking a reputation for quality and modernity still felt obliged to ape Western brands, as they had been doing for decades. "Like many other domestic companies, we started out aspiring for such influence," Zhou recalls...
...sees it differently. In leading one-fifth of the world's population toward greater prosperity, China is creating its own paradigm that borrows freely, but stands apart, from the East Asian model of development, let alone Western approaches. Therefore, foreign criticisms about poor progress in economic and political reforms do not apply. Moreover, Pax Americana in Asia has been an aberration in existence for only six decades. In contrast, in Beijing's view, the return of the Chinese civilization-state simply restores Asia's natural order...