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This is a manmade threat to the world order that Atlantic-hugging policymakers and pundits, buffered by a continent and a large ocean to their west, may not fully appreciate.
It is to be hoped that Taylor's departure heralds the beginning of a new African era, in which Africa's rulers stop protecting the continent's dictators because they would rather incur the wrath of faceless citizens than expel a dictator from among their ranks.
If so, leaders such as Mbeki will emerge as heroes for a new Africa, where intervention in neighboring states will protect the millions on the continent who remain subjugated by elderly dictators like Mugabe, who have exploited their position as anti-colonial liberation leaders, and younger, free-booting adventurers like Taylor.
The interest-rate spreads for Italian and Spanish government bonds have dropped dramatically, corporate-bond issues have resumed, and a sense of normalcy is slowly pervading the continent.
We all know what destruction and calamity that can bring to the continent.
Without them, Germany could return to a strategic no man’s land, which would endanger Europe, stoke dangerous illusions in Russia, and force Germany itself to deal with unmanageable challenges confronting the continent.
French descendants of Eastern European Jews have not yet fully come to terms with a continent – including Vichy France – that they still associate with the Holocaust, whereas Jews from the Maghreb tend to resent the fact that even in France, they remain surrounded by “Arabs.”
And who better to provide the funds for that than large British companies that will benefit the most from retaining access to the continent?
The liberal establishment in London and around the continent is aghast at how populism is tearing Europe apart.
If our democratic, Europeanist, progressive challenge to permanent debt bondage were snuffed out, I told them, the deepening crisis would produce a xenophobic, illiberal, anti-European wave not only in Greece but across the continent.
Reforming Europe from BelowLook at European history for the past 25 years, and you see that from the late 1970's to the early 1990's the continent was plagued by macroeconomic instability, high unemployment, over-regulated markets--including, importantly, financial markets--unregulated monopolies, and inefficient state-run industries.
But no one, it seems, will stop this rich continent from living with slow growth, high unemployment, and inefficient markets.
Nor did it seem to help that even most local military analysts say that the agreement does not represent any major change in the US military position on the continent.
Recently, Brazil had been differentiating itself from the rest of the continent through its stable economy and vibrant democratic political system, both of which were helping the country’s poor.
The Other, Brighter AfricaLONDON – The usual images of Africa are of a continent mired in conflict and squalor.
Read More from "Germany versus the Euro?"Plugging the Leaks in Africa’s EconomiesDAKAR – Africa is usually perceived as a net beneficiary of the global financial system, with aid and investment flowing to the continent from richer parts of the world.
Illicit capital flight is draining Africa dry – costing the continent about one trillion dollars over the last 50 years, according to a high-level panel chaired by former South African president Thabo Mbeki.
As long as financial leaks are sucking the life out of African economies, the continent will struggle to deal with challenges like youth unemployment and have only a limited capacity to invest in areas like health and agriculture.
Indeed, in but half a century, Latin Americans rid themselves of all of that continent's military and civilian dictatorships, and Africa has eliminated more than half of the despots that have blighted its era of independence.
In replacing the Organization of African Unity with the African Union, Africa, for its part, is making a huge effort to control conflict on the continent, as well as to spread observance of human rights and pursue the struggle against poverty.
In this context, Germany again finds itself in a situation akin to that of the late 1980’s, when the Bundesbank was setting monetary policy for the rest of the continent.
The continent risks once again becoming the chessboard on which the US and the Kremlin play for advantage.
I have just had that experience meeting delegates to the 22nd World Model United Nations Conference, which brought together in Australia more than 2,000 students from every continent and major culture to debate peace, development, and human rights, and the role of the UN in securing them.
The False Promise of Later RetirementEU Economics Commissioner Pedro Solbes warns that Europe's shrinking population will soon hit the Continent's economies hard.
It is unemployment and economic insecurity that breed xenophobia and support for extreme rightist movements across the continent.
If not halted, such measures could call into question the Jewish presence on the Continent in the longer term.
There are more than a half-billion mobile connections on the continent today; indeed, in many respects, Africa leads the world in mobile growth and innovation.
The impact of such efforts is already becoming apparent in many parts of the continent.
For example, the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, supplies high-quality seeds – many of which are drought-resistant – to millions of smallholder farmers across the continent.
Some say the bar to a good economy is the Continent's inflated welfare state and the solution is retrenchment, beginning with raising retirement ages.
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