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  • How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 07 August 2013
    How the EU can help Kerry with Israeli and Palestinian peace talks
  • Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 August 2013
    Putin's Russia: Stability and stagnation
  • Edward Snowden's '1984'
    Bulletin article by Ian Bond, 24 July 2013
    Edward Snowden's '1984'
  • The US heads home: Will Europe regret it?
    Opinion piece by Mark Leonard
    Financial Times, 26 June 2004

    The burning of Bush The US president was once known for his ability to unite factions but, with his foreign policy in tatters around him, he is dubbed the Great Polariser. What went wrong for George W. Bush and his advisers?
  • Transatlantic rift: How to bring the two sides together
    Report by Charles Grant, 05 September 2003

    The Iraq conflict divided the West into two hostile camps. The rifts that run across the Atlantic and among the Europeans show few signs of disappearing.
  • Difficult but necessary: A transatlantic strategy for the greater Middle East
    Briefing note by Steven Everts, 10 June 2003

    The US and Europe have to succeed in an exceptionally difficult undertaking. They have to meet not just a single or double challenge, but a triple one: They need to prove, to each other and the rest of the world, that the principal rationale of the US-European partnership is indeed no longer the bilateral relationship and the broader European agenda, but their ability to tackle, together, the growing problems of a troubled world.
  • Transatlantic disputes must not undermine EU and US counter-terrorism co-operation
    Briefing note by Adam Townsend, 05 June 2003

    Not all is doom and gloom in the tattered transatlantic relationship. EU member-states and the US are co-operating effectively over terrorism. But the US needs to work more with the EU as a whole, rather thansimply through individual European governments.
  • 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.'
  • The decline of American power
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 April 2003

    Saddam Hussein notwithstanding, most of the world's problems cannot be solved by military force. Their solution requires 'soft power', which can be defined as a country's ability to influence events through persuasion and attraction, rather than military or financial coercion.
  • New designs for Europe
    Report by Charles Grant, , 04 October 2002

    Everybody agrees that the EU's institutions are in bad need of reform. In the Convention on the Future of Europe, and elsewhere, a real debate has begun on how Europe should be governed.
  • The long road to Doha
    Bulletin article by Richard Cunningham and Peter Lichtenbaum, 01 February 2002

    The launch of a new round of multilateral trade negotiations by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) at Doha was not only a major accomplishment, it was a case of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat.