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  • Asia's fading economic miracle
    Policy brief by George Magnus, 11 January 2013
    Asia's fading economic miracle
  • US foreign policy after the presidential election: What should Europeans expect?
    Policy brief by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 25 October 2012
    US foreign policy after the presidential election
  • Russia needs a plan for modernising its economy
    Insight by Charles Grant, 06 November 2012
    Russia's economy
  • Russia-China: Axis of Convenience
    Opinion piece by Bobo Lo
    Open democracy, 20 May 2008

    The China threat looms large in the Russian imagination, but is not justified by the facts suggests Bobo Lo, writing for openDemocracy's new collaboration on Russia and the world.
  • Can Europe and China shape a new world order?
    Report by Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, 01 May 2008

    A new world order is emerging, with multiple centres of power. But will this order be multilateral, with governments accepting global rules and institutions? Or will the strongest states assert their interests unilaterally, without regard to international law?

  • For a new Iran policy
    Bulletin article by Christoph Bertram , 01 April 2008

    For almost six years now the West has tried – and failed – to stop the Iranian nuclear programme. Instead, nuclear enrichment has become a matter of Iranian national pride and sovereignty.

  • Dmitry Medvedev - Putin clone or the new man?
    Insight by Bobo Lo, 13 March 2008

    As Dmitry Medvedev walked across Red Square to join the concert celebrating his crushing victory in the Russian presidential elections, he could have been forgiven for wondering whether he had reached the pinnacle of achievement or been handed a poisoned chalice.
  • Time for the Export-Weltmeister to start consuming
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 13 February 2008

    Too many Europeans are blaming the US for the economic slowdown in Europe, as if everything would have been fine if only the Americans were not so irresponsible. This is complacent.
  • Poland’s bold new foreign policy
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 February 2008

    For the rest of Europe, the worst thing about Poland’s Law and Justice government, led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was its foreign policy. His approach towards Russia, Germany and (sometimes) the EU – supported by his twin brother, President Lech Kaczynski – was confrontational.

  • Don't be fooled: Bali was no breakthrough
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 18 December 2007

    The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali produced as much as it was ever likely to do. There was no breakthrough, contrary to the claims of some that attended the conference.
  • China is losing its EU friends
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 November 2007

    The EU is getting tough on China. That, at least, is the impression one gets from high-ranking EU officials that arrived for the annual EU-China summit in Beijing this week. Economics is the main reason for Europe’s changing mood.