Engaging with 'Global Swing States' Crucial for US and EU's Global Influence

The West must engage more meaningfully with an emergent bloc of "swing states" if it wants to maintain influence on the global stage, the German Marshall Fund, a Washington-based think-tank, said in a new report on Tuesday. The report's authors identified Brazil, India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Turkey as swing states that wield significant power on the world stage, but which each have varying preferences for cooperation outside the Western trans-Atlantic alliance.