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  • Are Europeans a better transatlantic security partner than meets the eye?
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, Patryk Pawlak, 06 July 2012
    Are Europeans a better transatlantic security partner than meets the eye?
  • The US-Russia reset is over
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 April 2012
    The US-Russia reset is over
  • All alone? What US retrenchment means for Europe and NATO
    Report by François Heisbourg, Wolfgang Ischinger, George Robertson, Kori Schake, Tomas Valasek, 01 March 2012
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  • The EU's premier foreign policy is enlargement
    Opinion piece by Hugo Brady
    DW-World.de, 09 February 2007

    At the annual security conference, which opens in Munich on Friday, Javier Solana will be awarded a prize for his efforts in promoting peace as the EU's foreign policy chief.
  • Divided world: The struggle for primacy in 2020
    Essay by Mark Leonard , 01 January 2007

    The world in 2020 will not see a new world order, but a competition between four ideas of how the world should be run: an American world striving for a balance of power that favours democracy; a 'Eurosphere' whose support for democracy is coupled with a belief in international institutions; an 'axis of sovereignty' led by China and Russia that sees multilateral inst
  • 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.
  • Transatlantic trade: walk before you run
    Bulletin article by Aurore Wanlin, 01 December 2006

    Ever since the EU forged its plans for a single market, in the late 1980s, there has periodically been interest in the idea of establishing a transatlantic single market – removing not only tariffs, but also non-tariff barriers to trade and investment.
  • What new transatlantic institutions?
    Opinion piece by Charles Grant
    European Affairs, 01 June 2006

    The last two years have seen a rapprochement across the Atlantic. The elevation of new personnel – such as Condoleezza Rice to the State Department and Angela Merkel as German Chancellor – has helped to remove some of the bitterness that the Iraq confrontation had left behind.
  • Drinking the Kool-Aid
    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.
  • India tilts to the west as the world's new poles emerge
    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.
  • The geopolitics of 2026
    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?