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  • Out of range, out of mind: Is there a role for Europe in the Korean crisis?
    Insight by Ian Bond, 12 April 2013
    Out of range, out of mind: Is there a role for Europe in the Korean crisis?
  • Asia's fading economic miracle
    Policy brief by George Magnus, 11 January 2013
    Asia's fading economic miracle
  • How can the EU influence China?
    Insight by Charles Grant, 07 January 2013
    How can the EU influence China?
  • G8 and world politics
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 11 June 2007

    Angela Merkel can be content with the outcome of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm which she chaired with her by now characteristic mix of modesty, determination and pragmatism.
  • Europe and America’s debate about foreign policy
    Bulletin article by Tomas Valasek, 01 June 2007

    Washington’s holiday from strategic debates is over. In the years immediately after September 11th, feelings of solidarity with a president at war prevented serious discussions on the merits of US foreign policy.
  • Industrial policy – back to the future?
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 June 2007

    In his book ‘Testimony’, Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected French president, wrote that his finest hour as finance minister of France was the government’s rescue of Alstom, a French maker of high-speed trains and telecoms equipment.
  • Three questions that Europe must ask about Russia
    Briefing note by Katinka Barysch, 16 May 2007

    On Friday 18 May 2007, EU leaders meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Samara. The summit will have few tangible results, partly because the Union is internally divided.
  • The EU should not ignore the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
    Policy brief by Oksana Antonenko, 11 May 2007

    The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) is an organisation of increasing strategic importance. It brings together Russia, China and four Central Asian states.
  • The EU and Arab reform
    Insight by Charles Grant, 27 April 2007

    The Arab Reform Initiative held its annual conference in Amman, Jordan, on 18th April. Founded in 2005, ARI is a consortium of a dozen research centres that advocate peaceful and gradual political, economic and social reform in the region.
  • Globalisation: Business versus politics?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 20 April 2007

    The CER and Accenture brought together a group of business people, journalists and policy analysts today, to discuss what the world may look like in 2020. What struck me is that there is not one debate about globalisation but several. And they hardly touch.
  • The EU, the US and Taiwan
    Insight by Charles Grant, 16 April 2007

    Taiwanese domestic politics is nasty and messy. The two main political forces – the KMT, which believes in ‘one China’, and the DPP, which leans towards an independent Taiwan – hate each other with venom that is unmatched in most other functioning democracies.