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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?
  • A new European approach to China
    Bulletin article by Mark Leonard, 03 April 2006

    Until now EU policy towards China has focused mainly on domestic issues: opening up China’s economy, protecting intellectual property, improving respect for human rights, and securing the readmission of illegal migrants.
  • EU 2010: A programme for reform
    Policy brief by Charles Grant, Hugo Brady, , 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.