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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
  • Scapegoating the US lets others off too easily
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 02 October 2008

    Huge amounts have been said about the consequences of the credit crunch for the US and UK economies. They undoubtedly face major adjustments, and several years of very weak economic growth.
  • How to handle the new Russia
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 October 2008

    The war in Georgia has led to a surge of anti-western sentiment in Russia. The fact that Americans and Europeans broadly sympathised with Georgia – when it was Mikheil Saakashvili’s attempt to take South Ossetia by force that started the war – infuriates many Russians.

  • Russia, China and the Georgia dimension
    Bulletin article by Bobo Lo, 01 October 2008

    Russia’s relations with the West today are more problematic than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall. With talk of a new Cold War and of parallels with the great power rivalries that preceded the First World War, Moscow’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Beijing has been out of the spotlight.
  • How strong is Russia's economic foundation?
    Policy brief by Pekka Sutela, 01 October 2008

    Russia's economy is in deep recession. Many Russians hope that rising oil prices will quickly restore the high growth rates their country enjoyed before 2008.

  • Pipelines, politics and power: The future of EU-Russia energy relations
    Report by Pavel Baev, Vaclav Bartuska, Christian Cleutinx, Clifford Gaddy, Roland Götz, Daniel Gros, Barry Ickes, Andrey Konoplyanik, Konstantin Kosachev, Tatiana Mitrova, Andris Piebalgs, Jeffery Piper, Pawel Swieboda, Dmitri Trenin, Sergey Yastrzhembsky , 01 October 2008

    Does the Kremlin use energy as a political weapon? Why is Russia’s oil and gas output stagnating? Can and should the EU try to reduce its dependence on Russian hydrocarbons? Are the EU and Russia engaged in a pipeline war? What does energy solidarity mean? What rules should govern EU-Russia energy relations?

  • India's role in the new world order
    Briefing note by Charles Grant, 26 September 2008

    Few doubt that India's geopolitical role will grow. But what kind of impact will India make on the world's economic and political order?

  • Can the next US president heal the transatlantic rift?
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 19 September 2008

    There are two schools of thought on what the election of a new US president will mean for transatlantic relations. The optimists argue that relations will improve significantly.
  • The EU's toolbox for Russia
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 15 September 2008

    Last week, Russia belatedly signed up to a timetable for pulling back its troops from the ‘buffer’ zone in Georgia. The EU, and its current president, Nicolas Sarkozy, deserve credit for having brokered the initial ceasefire and then pushing hard for Russia to follow the terms.