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  • 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
  • Smart but too cautious: How NATO can improve its fight against austerity
    Policy brief by Claudia Major, Christian Mölling, Tomas Valasek, 21 May 2012
    Smart but too cautious: How NATO can improve its fight against austerity
  • Breakfast on 'Is collaboration the answer to defence austerity? Perspectives on UK, France, NATO and the EU'
    Event, 14 March 2012, London
    Breakfast on 'Is collaboration the answer to defence austerity?
  • How should Europe respond to sovereign investors in its defence sector?
    Policy brief by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 September 2010

    A small number of sovereign investors, sometimes originating from non-democratic states, are buying shares in European aerospace and defence companies.

  • EU must co-ordinate its defence needs
    Opinion piece by Clara Marina O'Donnell
    The Guardian, 15 August 2010

    Most European countries are making drastic cuts to their defence spending. Several, including Britain, are contemplating giving up significant chunks of their military equipment.
  • Membership for Russia a step too far for NATO?
    Insight by Tomas Valasek, 08 July 2010

    There are growing signs that Russia’s relations with NATO are on the mend. Senior Russian thinkers, some close to the government, have been cautiously talking up the possibility of Russia joining the alliance, as have several western officials and think-tanks (including the CER.)

  • A transatlantic defence market, forever elusive?
    Policy brief by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 July 2010

    Despite close political and military ties across the Atlantic, defence markets are fragmented by burdensome export controls and government reluctance to buy equipment from abroad.

  • NATO, new allies and reassurance
    Policy brief by Ronald Asmus, Stefan Czmur, Chris Donnelly, Aivis Ronis and Klaus Wittmann, Tomas Valasek, 12 May 2010

    NATO spends too little time thinking about potential conflicts close to home and developing the means to react. Some of its members – mostly in Central and Eastern Europe – worry that the alliance would not be able to come to their defence in a crisis.

  • Human rights cannot be a luxury in Afghanistan
    Insight by Joanna Buckley, 07 May 2010

    The Afghans with whom I worked in Bamyan province, Afghanistan, often asked me why foreigners were so concerned about the destruction of historical monuments yet seemingly so indifferent to the human suffering that occurred.

  • The EU must deliver on its commitment to Pakistan
    Bulletin article by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 April 2010

    In April 2010 the EU will hold its second summit with Pakistan. The EU started holding these summits last year, as part of an effort to address security threats stemming from the country, especially the Islamist militants who use it as a safe haven to undermine the allied war effort in Afghanistan, and train suicide bombers to target Europe and the US.
  • Building a European external action service: A difficult birth?
    TGAE report, Report by Hugo Brady, 05 March 2010

    In foreign policy terms, the EU’s global partners often have to deal with the competing external relations bureaucracies of the European Commission, the EU’s Council Secretariat (itself acting separately for both the HR and the six-month EU Presidency) as well as the different diplomatic services of the member states.