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 concrete strategy for mending fences
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    International Herald Tribune, 17 February 2005

    For the past several years, the conventional wisdom has been that the United States and Europe have grown apart, that the end of the cold war and 9/11 have produced a strategic divergence that is impossible to overcome.
  • Making multilateralism work
    Bulletin article by Lord Hannay, 01 February 2005

    At their December 2003 summit, EU leaders nailed the concept of 'effective multilateralism' to their foreign policy mast. The governments said they were committed to upholding and improving international law; and to strengthening the United Nations (UN), by giving it the tools to do its work more effectively.
  • President Bush: Why you need the Europeans
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 December 2004

    Dear Mr President, You have defeated an opponent who made a point of saying that he would pay more attention to European allies than you have done. You and your supporters must feel that your 'Americafirst' philosophy has been vindicated.
  • A joined-up EU security policy
    Bulletin article by Daniel Keohane and Adam Townsend, 01 January 2004

    EU member-states disagree on whether the EU should have its own military headquarters, or continue to depend on NATO to help run EU operations. This dispute is becoming increasingly theological.
  • Clear skies across the Atlantic
    Bulletin article by Nick DeLuca, 02 June 2003

    When asked recently by the chairman of the UK House of Commons Transport Select Committee, 'Is the government's policy towards aviation a UK policy or a European one?', Alistair Darling, the transport secretary, slightly sheepishly acknowledged, 'Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's the other.'
  • War: Who is to blame
    Bulletin article by Pierre Hassner , 01 April 2003

    The French President has employed scorn and threats to insult sovereign European states, in a style reminiscent of comments made by Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Perle about France and Germany.
  • How Europe can help the Middle East peace process
    Bulletin article by Steven Everts, 03 February 2003

    The EU member-states are deeply divided over Iraq. But on the other great issue of the Middle East the Israel-Palestine conflict they have an increasingly common perspective.
  • EU foreign policy: A necessity, not an option
    Bulletin article by David Hannay , 01 October 2002

    No one who has lived through the recent weeks of international crisis over Iraq can doubt that making a reality out of Europe's Common Foreign and Security Policy is both one of the highest priorities for the European Union and one of the most difficult tasks it faces.