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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
  • Whatever happened to the G20?
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 14 April 2010

    George W Bush convened the first G20 summit in Washington in November 2008, at the height of the global financial and economic crisis.
  • How should Europe respond to China's strident rise?
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 February 2010

    Until very recently, many western politicians, bankers and business people were broadly optimistic about the rise of China. They assumed that as China became more developed it would become more western.

  • China's peaceful rise turns prickly
    Insight by Charles Grant, 22 January 2010

    Have western attitudes to the rise of China been based on wishful thinking? China's increasingly tough approach to diplomacy is leading governments in the US and in Europe to rethink their policies towards China.
  • Gazprom’s uncertain outlook
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 18 December 2009

    Many people in the EU tend to see Gazprom as a mighty giant that uses energy as a political tool on behalf of the Kremlin. They say that Russia has leverage because it controls 40 per cent of the EU’s gas imports.
  • Sharing the burden of a weaker dollar
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 December 2009

    The eurozone has suffered a deep recession – bigger than the US and about as bad as that in the UK. Public finances across the eurozone have worsened dramatically, and in some cases now look perilous.

  • NATO, Russia and European security
    Working paper by Tomas Valasek, 06 November 2009

    Countries in Europe's east and north worry that Moscow is blundering into a confrontation with NATO. They have begun demanding that the alliance start preparing for a possible conflict. But are they right to be concerned?

  • Making choices over China: EU-China co-operation on energy and climate
    Policy brief by Nick Mabey, 02 November 2009

    The EU needs China to move rapidly towards a low carbon economy. Even with strong leadership at the highest level in China, this will not be easy, given the country's scale, diversity and development needs.

  • Rebalancing the Chinese economy
    Policy brief by Simon Tilford, 02 November 2009

    China's economy and society are undergoing an extraordinary transformation, with hundreds of millions of people escaping poverty in record time. But the country's development model is not sustainable economically or politically.