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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-China 'reset': An opportunity for the EU
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 02 August 2010

    Europe faces few bigger questions than how to handle China. Recent shifts in the Washington-Beijing relationship, together with changes in the EU itself, give the Europeans a chance to rethink their own relations with China.
  • A transatlantic defence market, forever elusive?
    Policy brief by Clara Marina O'Donnell, 01 July 2010

    Despite close political and military ties across the Atlantic, defence markets are fragmented by burdensome export controls and government reluctance to buy equipment from abroad.

  • Russia and the West: Is the reset working?
    Bulletin article by Katinka Barysch, Tomas Valasek, 01 June 2010

    There are signs that Russia is becoming less antagonistic towards the West and more inclined to work co-operatively with it. Some regard this change in behaviour as proof that the Obama administration's plan to 'reset' relations with Russia is working and that the EU's continuous efforts to engage Moscow are finally paying off.

  • Le G20 a manqué une chance de réformer la finance
    Opinion piece by Katinka Barysch
    La Tribune, 24 April 2010

    Vendredi après-midi, ministres des Finances et banquiers centraux des pays riches et émergents du G20 se sont réunis à Washington pour discuter des projets de régulation du secteur financier.

  • Obama's missile defense change shows different targets
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    Yale Global Online, 21 September 2009

    Washington rankled some of its European allies and delighted Moscow on September 17 when president Obama cancelled plans to build missile defense bases in the Czech Republic and Poland.
  • Warsaw warms to Moscow
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Guardian, 18 September 2009

    Tabloids make a poor guide to understanding a country's policy. While the newspaper headlines in Poland and the Czech Republic scream of the US "betraying" eastern Europe by cancelling missile defence bases there, the official reaction in Warsaw and Prague has been muted.
  • Missile strategy must not be seen as a retreat
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    Financial Times, 09 September 2009

    There are mounting indications that Barack Obama will soon abandon plans to put missile defence bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. These have become one of the main bones of contention between Russia and the west.
  • Germany owes Afghanistan an explanation
    Opinion piece by Tomas Valasek
    The Guardian, 09 September 2009

    Finger pointing is the defence of the concerned and the cornered. So it reflects very poorly on Nato that allies are bickering with one another over an attack that killed an unknown number of Afghan civilians last week.