Asia's economyGlobal governanceRussia & China
  • Asia's fading economic miracle
    Policy brief by George Magnus, 11 January 2013
    Asia's fading economic miracle
  • Russia, China and global governance
    Report by Charles Grant, 29 February 2012
    Russia, China and global governance
  • True partners? How Russia and China see each other
    Report by Dmitri Trenin, 13 February 2012
    True partners? How Russia and China see each other
  • Four pillars for an EU-India partnership
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 June 2008

    Until recently, neither the EU nor India took their relationship very seriously. That is starting to change, thanks to burgeoning economic ties.

  • Russia-China: Axis of Convenience
    Opinion piece by Bobo Lo
    Open democracy, 20 May 2008

    The China threat looms large in the Russian imagination, but is not justified by the facts suggests Bobo Lo, writing for openDemocracy's new collaboration on Russia and the world.
  • Can Europe and China shape a new world order?
    Report by Charles Grant, , 01 May 2008

    A new world order is emerging, with multiple centres of power. But will this order be multilateral, with governments accepting global rules and institutions? Or will the strongest states assert their interests unilaterally, without regard to international law?

  • Don't be fooled: Bali was no breakthrough
    Insight by Simon Tilford, 18 December 2007

    The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali produced as much as it was ever likely to do. There was no breakthrough, contrary to the claims of some that attended the conference.
  • China is losing its EU friends
    Insight by Katinka Barysch, 29 November 2007

    The EU is getting tough on China. That, at least, is the impression one gets from high-ranking EU officials that arrived for the annual EU-China summit in Beijing this week. Economics is the main reason for Europe’s changing mood.
  • Can the EU learn to live with Chinese mercantilism?
    Insight by Philip Whyte, 29 October 2007

    Not long after its launch, the euro was famously dismissed by a disgruntled currency trader as a “toilet currency”. How things have changed.
  • State of the Union: The good deal
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Wall Street Journal, 25 June 2007

    The deal in Brussels on a new treaty this weekend is good news for those who hope the EU can become a more confident and effective contributor to global security.
  • Industrial policy – back to the future?
    Bulletin article by Simon Tilford, 01 June 2007

    In his book ‘Testimony’, Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected French president, wrote that his finest hour as finance minister of France was the government’s rescue of Alstom, a French maker of high-speed trains and telecoms equipment.