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Summary
Apocalyptic predictions on the world's future after COVID-19 are unfounded. Structures of global governance can be reinforced through greater subsidiarity; that is, by enhancing the participation of local authorities, by the involvement of civil society and the private sector and by regionalising initiatives, where appropriate. Furthermore, globalisation's scope should be extended to comprise the shared governance of all global public goods and elements affecting human security. This essay outlines how this transformation could work for the four policy areas of global trade, food security, public health and climate change.

The year 2009 marked a milestone for the European Security and DefencePolicy. While celebrating the first decade of crisis management led by theEU within the framework of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP)it is also a good time for taking stock of that what has been achieved so farand setting priorities for our goals and ambitions in the coming ten years.We can, with good reasons, be proud of our success. Who could have foreseenin 1999 that we were going to conduct 23 civilian and military operationson three continents within the next ten years? The continuous developmentof our capabilities in crisis management since the French-British summitin St. Malo and the meetings of the European Council in Cologne andHelsinki, when the ESDP was born, has made the EU a global provider ofsecurity. (Europäische Sicherheit / SWP)

A downright positive conclusion can be drawn five years after the beginning of the first ESDP missions. Who had deemed it possible five years ago that Europeans would provide for the security in eastern Chad, preserve peace in Aceh, train policemen in the Palestinian autonomy territories or contribute to the stabilization of the situation in Georgia? We have achieved a lot with in a very short period of time and turned Europe into a global actor who can be judged by his actions. And the demand for the security actor "European Union" is not declining -quite the reverse! We have to continue to see to it that the expectations and hopes placed in us will not be dashed. With each of the aforementioned operations the EU has learned something new, has advanced its capabilities. But there is still plenty of work ahead of us. I am confident that we will meet these challenges, too. (Europäische Sicherheit / SWP)