Global governanceRussia's presidentTransatlantic rift
  • Russia, China and global governance
    Report by Charles Grant, 29 February 2012
    Russia, China and global governance
  • It doesn’t matter who is president of Russia
    Opinion piece 02 August 2011
    It doesn’t matter who is president of Russia
  • Stopping the transatlantic rift
    Opinion piece 26 January 2011
    Stopping the transatlantic rift
  • A focused campaign not a crusade
    Bulletin article by By Steven Everts, 01 October 2001

    As America comes to terms with the massive terrorist attacks on September 11, and as it frames and implements its response, the key question for Europe is: what should its role be?
  • US, EU and Russia: A new order?
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 October 2001

    In the aftermath of September 11th's horrific events, the world has focused on America's diplomatic and military response. Some of the security issues that commentators were worrying about before the terrorist attacks - such as missile defence, the Balkans and the future of NATO - have left the headlines.
  • Time to act in the Middle East
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts, 01 June 2001

    Once again the Middle East is facing a crisis with rising levels of hatred and violence on all sides. The death toll in the "second" intifadah stands at 450 Palestinians and around 100 Israelis and is rising. As a result, the prospects for a comprehensive peace accord are slipping ever further away.
  • Turning East: Europe Courts Asia
    Bulletin article by Edward Bannerman, 01 February 2001

    The United States has long cast its shadow over the formal meetings of Asian and European ministers. "How will this play in Washington?" was the unspoken caveat to the normally unexciting conclusions of most Asian-Europe Meetings (ASEM).
  • Opening Europe's final frontier
    Bulletin article by Carl Bildt, 01 February 2001

    The European Union must make space policy a key element of its agenda in the next few years. Otherwise it will have little chance of meeting its ambitious objectives for peace and prosperity in the coming decades.
  • The unholiest of alliances
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 December 2000

    Yes, there really are some people who believe in a federal super-state. They want the EU to evolve into something like the USA, with a strong central government responsible to the European Parliament.
  • Europe needs an avant-garde, but...
    Bulletin article by Jacques Delors , 02 October 2000

    I have always found talk about a European constitution unhelpful, for it is such an ambiguous term. My preferred formula is that Europe should be a "federation of nation states". What ties states together is a treaty.
  • The EU and world trade
    Bulletin article by Julie Wolf, 01 August 2000

    The collapse of the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation in December 1999 was a blow to the EU, which had first proposed the idea of a "millennium round" of trade liberalisation.