Global Overview 2010

Global Overview 2010

Author(s): Daniel Möckli
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series Editor(s): Andreas Wenger, Victor Mauer
Book Title: Strategic Trends 2010: Key Developments in Global Affairs
Series: Strategic Trends
Pages: 7-25
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Place: Zurich

2009 was a year of crisis. This applies as much to finance as it does to energy, proliferation, and other pressing security challenges. Moving into 2010, there is a growing disconnect between the scale of global crises and the policy responses these have engendered. Novel ideas have either been lacking or, as in the case of US foreign policy, proven difficult to implement. With power gradually shifting from West to East, finding effective solutions to global governance questions has become ever more complex.
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