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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
  • EU 2010: A programme for reform
    Policy brief by Charles Grant, Hugo Brady, Katinka Barysch, Simon Tilford, 03 February 2006

    The European Union is suffering from a profound malaise. There have been difficult times in the past – such as the 'empty chair' left by General de Gaulle in the mid-1960s, the rows over the British budget contribution in the early 1980s, and the struggles to ratify the Maastricht treaty and preserve the Exchange Rate Mechanism in the early 1990s.
  • India and the EU: strategic partners?
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 February 2006

    Most EU governments take very little interest in India. That is likely to change. According to Goldman Sachs’ (admittedly speculative) research, over the next half century India will grow faster than any other large national economy.
  • India tilts to the west as the world's new poles emerge
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 12 January 2006

    Nothing is permanent in history, including America's domination of the global economic and political systems. Assuming China and India keep growing at their current rates, the unipolar world of recent years - topped by the US - will be replaced by a multipolar world within a few decades.
  • The geopolitics of 2026
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Economist, 02 January 2006

    History is traced not is straight lines but in jagged and discontinuous strokes. But what if the future follows a more predictable path?
  • India joins the west
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    Prospect, 01 November 2005

    Last month saw a small geopolitical revolution: India backed the west against Iran.
  • Can variable geometry save EU enlargement?
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 03 October 2005

    All over Europe, politicians are becoming more hostile to further EU enlargement. One reason is that electorates in many countries oppose it. Another is that the EU’s ‘widening’ has always been closely linked to its ‘deepening’.
  • Russia, the EU and the common neighbourhood
    Essay by Dmitri Trenin, 02 September 2005

    Throughout the 1990s, Russia tended to underestimate the impact of the EU's forthcoming eastward enlargement. Compared with NATO's expansion into post-Communist territory, EU enlargement looked like the lesser evil.
  • Embracing the dragon: The EU's partnership with China
    Report by Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, 02 May 2005

    The EU is now China's biggest trading partner. European companies are ploughing billions of euro into the booming Chinese market. The EU offers Beijing help in areas such as fighting pollution and writing better laws.