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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
  • The EU and Russia: Strategic partners or squabbling neighbours?
    Report by Katinka Barysch, 03 May 2004

    The EU and Russia share a multitude of interests and objectives. The EU is Russia's biggest export market, while Russia is a crucial supplier of energy to the Union. However, as Katinka Barysch explains, the two sides often squabble.
  • Transatlantic rift: How to bring the two sides together
    Report by Charles Grant, 05 September 2003

    The Iraq conflict divided the West into two hostile camps. The rifts that run across the Atlantic and among the Europeans show few signs of disappearing.
  • The EU-Russia energy dialogue
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, Katinka Barysch, 09 May 2003

    Russia is the EU's biggest neighbour. The EU is Russia's most important trading partner and source of foreign investment. Yet EU-Russia relations have often suffered from discord over contentious issues such as trade quotas, rules on visas, the Kaliningrad enclave or human rights in Chechnya.
  • Russia and the WTO
    Report by Katinka Barysch, 06 December 2002

    Russia first applied to the World Trade Organisation in 1993. But it was only when Vladimir Putin took over the presidency in 2000 that real progress towards accession became possible.
  • Constructive duplication: Reducing EU reliance on US military assets
    Working paper by Dr Kori Schake , 04 January 2002

    In 'Constructive duplication', Kori Schake asserts that the Bush administration has taken a positive approach to the European Union's attempts to develop a military capability.
  • 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.
  • How the EU can help Russia
    Report by David Gowan, 05 January 2001

    Russia's President Vladimir Putin is starting to take the EU seriously, as an entity in its own right. But many Russians feel ambiguous about the EU's development, particularly its enlargement into Eastern Europe.
  • Europe must learn to work with Bush
    Policy brief by Steven Everts, 01 December 2000

    Europeans will react with a mixture of scepticism and hope to George W. Bush’s victory in this year’s cliffhanger elections. The vast majority of European policy-makers expect US diplomacy to become somewhat more adversarial in style and Eurosceptic in substance.