Palestine & UN bidPalestine state?Arab spring
  • The US and the EU should support the Palestinian bid for UN membership
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 25 August 2011
    The US and the EU should support the Palestinian bid for UN membership
  • Palestinian reconciliation is an opportunity for peace
    Bulletin article by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 June 2011
    Palestinian reconciliation is an opportunity for peace
  • Can the Arab spring bring peace to the Middle East?
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 21 April 2011
  • The EU should talk to Hamas
    Insight by Charles Grant, Clara Marina O'Donnell, 11 July 2007

    The conspicuous role of Hamas in the recent release of Alan Johnston was not only good news for the BBC correspondent. Hamas showed that it cares about how it is perceived abroad, that it wants to be considered a credible actor, and that it hopes to end its international isolation.
  • The EU and Arab reform
    Insight by Charles Grant, 27 April 2007

    The Arab Reform Initiative held its annual conference in Amman, Jordan, on 18th April. Founded in 2005, ARI is a consortium of a dozen research centres that advocate peaceful and gradual political, economic and social reform in the region.
  • Can the EU deal with its unruly neighbours?
    Opinion piece by Daniel Keohane
    European Voice, 21 December 2006

    What future security and defence challenges should the EU prepare for?Europe should be worried about the spread of weapons-of-mass-destruction (WMD), failing states and terrorism. In fact it already is.
  • Europe's flawed approach to Arab democracy
    Essay by Richard Youngs, 02 October 2006

    The European Union's efforts to promote political reform in North Africa and the Middle East are running into the ground. After the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks in the US, Europe's leaders pledged to promote democracy in the region as a way of tackling the root causes of terrorism.
  • Can we live with a nuclear Iran?
    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.
  • The great firewall of China will fall
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    The Daily Telegraph, 26 January 2006

    Google, the popular search engine that floated on the stock market last year, has not abandoned its corporate motto: "Don't be evil".
  • Can EU diplomacy stop Iran's nuclear programme?
    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.
  • Turkey offers EU more punch
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    European Voice, 01 September 2005

    Rather than undermine the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy, Turkish membership of the Union could boost the bloc's power in trouble spots across the Middle East and Central Asia, argues Charles Grant.