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Another Great Depression?

Insight by Katinka Barysch
15 October 2008

Many observers have drawn parallels between the current economic crisis and the Great Depression of the 1930s. However, the stock market collapse of 1929 did not directly cause what turned out to be the deepest and most prolonged recession of modern times, ultimately ending in the Second World War.
Scapegoating the US lets others off too easily

Insight by Simon Tilford
02 October 2008

Huge amounts have been said about the consequences of the credit crunch for the US and UK economies. They undoubtedly face major adjustments, and several years of very weak economic growth.
Pipelines, politics and power: The future of EU-Russia energy relations

Report by Pavel Baev, Vaclav Bartuska, Christian Cleutinx, Clifford Gaddy, Roland Götz, Daniel Gros, Barry Ickes, Andrey Konoplyanik, Konstantin Kosachev, Tatiana Mitrova, Andris Piebalgs, Jeffery Piper, Pawel Swieboda, Dmitri Trenin, Sergey Yastrzhembsky
01 October 2008

Does the Kremlin use energy as a political weapon? Why is Russia’s oil and gas output stagnating? Can and should the EU try to reduce its dependence on Russian hydrocarbons? Are the EU and Russia engaged in a pipeline war? What does energy solidarity mean? What rules should govern EU-Russia energy relations?
How strong is Russia's economic foundation?

Policy brief by Pekka Sutela
01 October 2008

Russia's economy is in deep recession. Many Russians hope that rising oil prices will quickly restore the high growth rates their country enjoyed before 2008.
In defence of Anglo-Saxon capitalism

Insight by Charles Grant
29 September 2008

Those who never liked ‘Anglo-Saxon’ capitalism are feeling smug. Marxists, fans of ‘Rhineland’ capitalism and those who simply cannot stand American power are crowing.
Issue 62 October/November 2008

26 September 2008
How to handle the new Russia
By Charles Grant
Russia, China and the Georgia dimension
External author(s): Bobo Lo
Options for EU trade policy
By Philip Whyte
India's role in the new world order

Briefing note by Charles Grant
26 September 2008

Few doubt that India's geopolitical role will grow. But what kind of impact will India make on the world's economic and political order?
Can the next US president heal the transatlantic rift?

Insight by Tomas Valasek
19 September 2008

There are two schools of thought on what the election of a new US president will mean for transatlantic relations. The optimists argue that relations will improve significantly.