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The article aims to inform about the international role that the United States may play in the coming years. The form that the American role will take is of significance for all other states. A redefinition of the U.S. role & policy is likely after George W. Bush leaves office. A new president may set a different agenda. The article contrasts the different positions of the presidential candidates on various international issues. However, it is suggested that the U.S. will aim for a hegemonic position in the world. The impact of the future American policy on German foreign policy is examined. Adapted from the source document.

The renewed Iraq policy not only contradicted the declared concepts behind the German administration's handling of international conflict, but did not even take it into consideration. While the initial German response after 9/11 (2001) was to acquiesce, as the unipolar nature of US intentions emerged, a policy of countervailing power creation was initiated to guard German & EU security & economic interests. Contradictory interests now exist between democratic nations, with world order conflicts that cannot be healed via multilateral institutions, given that the norms & principles are themselves sources of conflict. Currently Germany is pursuing a dual course with foreign & security policy questions, stressing the importance of flexibility & stronger cooperation, on the one hand, & the importance of a unified European voice with respect to the US, on the other. The central task of current German foreign policy is to translate the definition of self-interests into substantial concepts, on which basis conflict about the alignment of European foreign policy can be directed & public diplomacy influence over the US can be exerted. 11 References. L. Kehl

Since its very beginning, European integration has been accompanied by conflicts with isolated partners. In some cases, as de Gaulle's "empty chair" policy reveals, they have led to crises of the integration process itself. Conflicts with isolated partners are quite common in the European Union & increase as the EU is deepened & widened. While most of them are resolved without causing public attention, some do bear the potential for escalation & crisis like, for example, the struggle over BSE. Interestingly enough, while there has been a growth in the heterogeneity of interests -- which in turn has led to the steadily growing potential for conflict -- there has not been an increase in disintegrative spill-overs, such as GB's "non-cooperation policy," or lasting blockades. The article argues that this can be explained by the EU's growing ability to resolve conflicts, which is largely based on asymmetric multilevel governance. The analysis of conflicts with isolated partners reveals that the European political system's growing potential for conflict resolution can best be understood by applying a multilevel-governance approach founded on neoinstitutionalist insights. 1 Table, 75 References. Adapted from the source document.