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In this essay, former federal president of Germany Horst Köhler presents the main findings of the report of the High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and discusses the implications of ‘global partnership’ for international politics. He analyses four key concepts of politics: sovereignty, legitimacy, national interests and common values, all of which are needed to be revisited in order to meet the immense social, economic and ecological challenges in this century of interconnectedness.
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Adapted from the Jos van Gennip Lecture, a speech delivered at The Dutch Senate, The Hague, 22 January 2014.
Argues that profound transformation of attitudes and in actions is necessary to reboot partnerships that are necessary for the world to deal with the challenges of our age.
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Köhler, H. Global Partnership: Thoughts on a new leitmotif for international politics. Development 56, 299–307 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2014.8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2014.8