The UK and EU foreign, security and defence policy after Brexit: integrated, associated or detached?

None of the existing models for the future trade policy relationship between the UK and the EU come with a predetermined foreign and security policy relationship. This article assesses how the future EU-UK foreign and security policy relationship might be organised post-Brexit. It provides evaluation of the current EU-UK interrelationship in the fields of the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and assesses the degree to which the UK is presently integrated into EU decision-making and implementation. It highlights that the UK needs to determine the degree to which it wants autonomy or even divergence from existing EU policies. The article concludes by rehearsing the costs and benefits of three possible future relationships between the UK and EU foreign, security and defence policy: integrated, associated or detached

A catalog of bright calibrator stars for 200-meter baseline near-infrared stellar interferometry

We present in this paper a catalog of reference stars suitable for calibrating infrared interferometric observations. In the K band, visibilities can be calibrated with a precision of 1% on baselines up to 200 meters for the whole sky, and up to 300 meters for some part of the sky. This work, extending to longer baselines a previous catalog compiled by Borde et al. (2002), is particularly well adapted to hectometric-class interferometers such as the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI, Glindemann et al. 2003) or the CHARA array (ten Brummelaar et al. 2003) when observing well resolved, high surface brightness objects (K<8). We use the absolute spectro-photometric calibration method introduced by Cohen et al. (1999) to derive the angular diameters of our new set of 948 G8--M0 calibrator stars extracted from IRAS, 2MASS and MSX catalogs. Angular stellar diameters range from 0.6 mas to 1.8 mas (median is 1.1 mas) with a median precision of 1.35%. For both the northern and southern hemispheres, the closest calibrator star is always less than 10 degree away.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figures, submitted to A&A. The full catalog can be found in http://calys.obspm.fr/~merand/Files/MerandEtAlCatalogue.tx

Alternativen zu Schocktherapie und Verschuldung: Zur Transformation der früheren Sowjetunion

Die ausführlichste Analyse der sowjetischen Wirtschaft wurde in einer Gemeinschaftsstudie von Weltbank, IWF u.a. unternommen. Die daraus abgeleiteten Reformszenarien sind gleichwohl defizitär, da sie von illusorischen Annahmen über die Funktionsweise von Märkten ausgehen. Zur Vermeidung von einem transformationsbedingten Marktversagen schlägt der Autor u. a. wohldosierte industriepolitische Maßnahmen vor, die die Sozialpolitik als integralen Teil einer Stabilisierung anerkennen. Internationale Hilfe hätte sich enger am historischen Marshall-Plan zu orientieren, insbesondere an dessen hohem Schenkungsteil; neben einer institutionalisierten Kooperation wären »Gegenwertfonds« als Mittel der Kapitallenkung einzusetzen