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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?
  • The US heads home: Will Europe regret it?
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    Financial Times, 26 June 2004

    The burning of Bush The US president was once known for his ability to unite factions but, with his foreign policy in tatters around him, he is dubbed the Great Polariser. What went wrong for George W. Bush and his advisers?
  • 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, , 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, Robert Cottrell, Franco Frattini, Paul Hare, Pascal Lamy, Maxim Medvedkov, Yevgeny Yasin, 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.