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  • 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
  • Europe and the Georgia-Russia conflict
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    Open democracy, 30 September 2008

    The European Union played a key diplomatic role in mediating the Caucasus war. Now it must do more to manage the wider tensions with Russia that have followed. Katinka Barysch offers a policy checklist.
  • The new Russia and how to deal with it
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Open democracy, 18 September 2008

    Dmitri Medvedev compares '8/8', the date of Georgia's attack on South Ossetia, with 9/11. The Russian president is right that the war in Georgia, and the way the West reacted, have fundamentally changed the worldview of many Russians.
  • Conflit russo-géorgien: un nouveau souffle pour l'OTAN
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    RIA Novosti, 09 September 2008

    Le conflit entre la Géorgie et la Russie donnera une nouvelle impulsion à l'OTAN, a estimé dans un entretien accordé à RIA Novosti mardi le directeur du Centre britannique pour la Réforme européenne, Charles Grant.
  • The bear's Achilles heel
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 15 August 2008

    For many American commentators, plucky little Georgia has been the victim of Russian imperialism. The Guardian's Seumas Milne takes an simplistic view: Russia is blameless for a war caused by US "expansion".
  • Can the west help prevent an all-out war between Russia and Georgia?
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Guardian, 08 August 2008

    This week, Georgia made a bold gamble: it moved forces into South Ossetia; a province of Georgia that broke free in the early 1990s, in an attempt to re-assert its authority over parts or all of it.
  • The next US president should forget the League of Democracies
    Bulletin article by David Hannay, 01 August 2008

    Expectations of a transatlantic honeymoon after the US presidential election are absurdly high. Most Europeans are enjoying the giddy delights of Obamamania, while also thinking that John McCain would do a lot better than the despised George W Bush.

  • Europe must build a strategic alliance with China
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    Financial Times, 09 June 2008

    The shift of power from west to east, as the US-dominated international order becomes multipolar, is evident. But the nature of the emerging system is far from clear. Will it be competitive, based on the assertion of national power, or co-operative, framed by international rules?
  • 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?