• Insight by Simon Tilford, 08 December 2006

    When Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, announced yesterday’s increase in eurozone interest rates, he did not even mention the threat a weaker dollar could pose to the outlook for the eurozone economy.

  • Bulletin article by Nick Butler , 02 October 2006

    When the first CER bulletin was published, almost a decade ago, the emphasis was firmly on the word ‘reform’. The EU had fulfilled its original purpose. Western Europe was an area of security, peace and, in the main, prosperity.

  • Bulletin article by Mark Leonard, 01 June 2006

    As Europeans and Americans put together a final package of incentives to divert Iran from its nuclear course, the world is facing up to the possibility of failure.

  • Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    Prospect, 01 February 2006

    Was the Iraq adventure doomed to fail or did the US administration mess it up? A new crop of books suggests that the nation-builders of Iraq were fighting the right war in theory but not in practice.

  • Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    The Guardian, 12 January 2006

    Nothing is permanent in history, including America's domination of the global economic and political systems. Assuming China and India keep growing at their current rates, the unipolar world of recent years - topped by the US - will be replaced by a multipolar world within a few decades.

  • Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Economist, 02 January 2006

    History is traced not is straight lines but in jagged and discontinuous strokes. But what if the future follows a more predictable path?

  • Working paper by Mark Leonard, 04 November 2005

    When Iran restarted its nuclear programme in August 2005, it seemed to obliterate two years of EU efforts to persuade Tehran not to build a nuclear bomb. However, Mark Leonard argues that the EU should persevere with diplomacy.

  • Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    Prospect, 01 November 2005

    Last month saw a small geopolitical revolution: India backed the west against Iran.