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43akzente 3/15 GERMANY IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD If you want to shape the future, you need to know how other people view you. For its qualitative study ‘Germany in the Eyes of the World’, GIZ interviewed 179 people from 26 countries between August 2014 and January 2015. The interviewees ranged from students to prime ministers, and their face-to-face interviews offer in-depth insights that provide food for thought and reflection. And this is what makes the GIZ study different from other, mostly standardised, national perception surveys. ‘Germany in the Eyes of the World’ is available in English and German and is the second in what is intended to be a time series; the first survey appeared in 2011. www.giz.de/eyes-of-others ‘The Germans respect themselves, and that makes them strong, so I have confidence in them.’ CHINA ‘The Germans try to resolve problems and crises through dialogue rather than through violence.’ DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO ‘You need to market yourselves to the broad mass of the population. You need to win minds but you have to win hearts as well.’ INDIa ‘The energy shift is extremely ambitious, but Germany is on the right track. You lead the EU in this field.’ NORWay ‘The world needs an enlight- ened global power. Germany is enlightened, but it isn’t energetic enough to win oth- ers over to its views.’ UNITED KINGDOM ‘What German foreign policy comes down to is reliability, loyalty to its allies, and predictability. But right now, Germany’s standpoint is not predictable.’ Netherlands