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Unwritten rules: How Russia really works?

Essay by Alena Ledeneva
04 May 2001

Western businesses and policy-makers must first grasp the "unwritten rules" that underpin the Russian economy, if they are to play a role in its transformation, according to this essay.
US missile defence: Strategically sound, politically questionable

Working paper by Bruno Tertrais
06 April 2001

In Europe, both governments and the broad spread of public opinion have been largely sceptical about, or opposed to, missile defence.
Issue 17 April/May 2001

30 March 2001
The stockholm scorecard
External author(s): Edward Bannerman
An EU senate is superfluous
External author(s): Richard Corbett
Don't legislate on consultation
External author(s): James Wilson
Europe's military revolution

Report by Gilles Andréani, Christoph Bertram, Charles Grant
02 March 2001

The creation of the single European currency, a revolutionary innovation for the European Union (EU), has provoked tumultuous debate across the continent and beyond. Yet the EU's plans for a common defence policy have - thus far - attracted less attention.
The Lisbon scorecard: The status of economic reform in Europe

Working paper by Edward Bannerman
02 March 2001

It will be left to future historians to appreciate fully the significance of the Lisbon Summit of March 2000 in the economic evolution of Europe. But it is already possible to argue that its impact could be even more farreaching than that of the euro.
Unilateral America? Lightweight Europe? Managing divergence in transatlantic foreign policy

Working paper by Steven Everts
02 February 2001

The election of George W Bush as the new US President has caused uneasiness in Europe, both at the level of individual states and that of the European Union (EU).
What comes after Nice

Policy brief by Heather Grabbe
02 February 2001

Both the outcome at Nice and the methods used to achieve it have left widespread dissatisfaction. Any deal would have been good for enlargement, in allowing the EU to move ahead. But the unseemly spectacle of 15 countries scrambling for position was hardly a shining example of inter-governmentalism at work.
Issue 16 February/March 2001

26 January 2001
Turning East: Europe Courts Asia
External author(s): Edward Bannerman
Opening Europe's final frontier
External author(s): Carl Bildt
Making Lisbon work in Stockholm
External author(s): Alasdair Murray