New article by Tomáš Profant in Europe-Asia Studies shows the power effects of Slovak development cooperation discourses. It focuses on […]
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“Russian-Chinese relations in Eurasia: Harmonization or subordination”, Marcin Kaczmarski (FIIA, Finland)
FIIA Briefing Paper 238, April 2018 Russia and China have largely managed to avoid direct competition in the post-Soviet space, […]
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“Nordic-Baltic Security in Times of Uncertainty: The Defence-Energy Nexus”, Jakub Godzimirski, Aleksandra Gawlikowska-Fyk, Marcin Terlikowski, Wojciech Lorenz, Bartosz Bieliszczuk, Artur Kacprzyk (NUPI, Norway)
The report shows that energy and defence in the Nordic-Baltic region are closely interrelated. During the Cold War, the energy […]
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“Societal Security in Baltic Sea Region: Expertise Mapping and Raising Policy Relevance”, Andris Sprūds, Boris Kuznetsov, Mika Aaltola eds. (LIIA, Latvia)
The book “Societal Security in Baltic Sea Region: Expertise Mapping and Raising Policy Relevance”, edited by Andris Sprūds, Boris Kuznetsov […]
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“Beyond Enlargement: Conceptualizing the Study of the European Neighbourhood Policy”, Frank Schimmelfennig (ETH, Zürich)
in: Schumacher, Tobias, Marchetti, Andreas and Demmelhuber, Thomas (eds.): The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, Abingdon: Routledge, 2018, […]
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“Do Western Balkans face a coming Russian storm?”, Mark Galeotti (IIR, Czech Republic)
New ECFR report by Mark Galeotti focusing on possibility of launch of a renewed Russian campaign in the Balkans in […]
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“Crisis Management versus Collective Defense”, Nicholas Williams (IIR, Czech Republic)
“After more than 20 years of focusing on crisis management and intervention, NATO knows how to do crisis management, but […]
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“Pro-Castro Cuba: Entrenched military guarantees continuity”, Mikael Wigell (FIIA, Finland)
FIIA Comment 9/2018, April 2018 Cuba’s presumed new president, Miguel Díaz-Canel, is facing hefty challenges. A major hurdle is the […]
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“Geoeconomics as concept and practice in international relations: Surveying the state of the art”, Mikael Wigell, Sören Scholvin (FIIA, Finland)
Recent cases of power politics such as China’s One Belt, One Road strategy, Venezuela’s petro-diplomacy during the era of Hugo […]
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“Psychographic advertising: the global battle to sway minds”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
The Cambridge Analytica case shows that almost anyone –private companies, governments, non-state organisations– with access to users’ data and a […]
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“Russia’s propaganda war about Syria: How pro-Kremlin Twitter accounts manipulate the West”, Sophie Eisentraut (FIIA, Finland)
Moscow is keen to exploit the conflict in Syria in its information war against the West. Russian messaging on Syria […]
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“The Decline of the Big Five”, Veronika Bílková, (IIR, Czech Republic)
Is the supremacy of the Big Five, inherited from the mid-20th century, on the brink of its decline? Have the […]
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“Roadblocks and Avenues for Brazil-Europe Cooperation: Exploring a Wider Security Agenda”, Leonardo Paz Neves, IAI Papers, 18:6, March 2018 (IAI, Italy)
Since 2013, Brazil and Europe have both been dealing with several crises that seem to have prevented them from […]
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“Australia and the EU in the Indo-Pacific: Is Cooperation towards a Rules-Based Order Possible?”, Milena Selivanov, Nicola Casarini (IAI, Italy)
IAI Commentaries, 18:19, March 2018 The regional power shift in the Indo-Pacific poses opportunities and threats to Australia and the […]
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“The decreasing asymmetry in Russia-China relations: The consequences of the Western policy shift towards China”, Marcin Kaczmarski (FIIA, Finland)
The changes in the Western policy towards China have the potential to diminish the asymmetry characterizing Russian-Chinese relations so far. […]
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Policy Paper: Challenges and Perspectives for a Sustainable Transformation in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood (IEP, Germany)
The policy paper aims to make an assessment of the impact of the Eastern Partnership (EaP) on the reform processes […]
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“Seeking the Eastern Partnership’s greatest integer”, Andriy Tyushka (CoE, Natolin)
in: New Easter Europe magazine (issue 2/2018, pp. 87-93) Dr Andriy TYUSHKA, Research Fellow with the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at […]
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“Nordic foreign and security policy cooperation: The new strategic environment as a catalyst for greater unity?”, Tuomas Iso-Markku (FIIA, Finland)
The deterioration of the Nordic states’ immediate security environment after the Ukraine crisis has given a new sense of relevance […]
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“Russian-Ukrainian relations: The farewell that wasn’t”, Arkady Moshes, Ryhor Nizhnikau (FIIA, Finland)
The “Revolution of Dignity” led to a considerable decrease in Russian economic, political and soft power influence over Ukraine. Yet […]
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“Regionalism à la ASEAN: Past achievements and current challenges”, Bart Gaens, Olli Ruohomäki (FIIA, Finland)
In the course of fifty years, ASEAN has developed from an anti-communist bloc to a successful and inclusive political association […]
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“EU member states and “Russia: National and European debates in an evolving international environment”, Marco Siddi (FIIA, Finland)
In March 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, relations between Moscow and the European Union precipitated into their deepest crisis since […]
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“Asia is booming – what are the implications?”, Ane Teksum Isbrekken (NUPI, Norway)
Connectivity has become a buzzword today. It topped the agenda at the joint conference on trade, infrastructure and Europe–Asia relations, […]
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“Strategic Communication (StratCom) policies”, Félix Arteaga (Elcano, Spain)
Elcano Expert Comments The hybrid practices of Russia and China have highlighted just how vulnerable European and Japanese security and defence policies […]
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“A G20 agenda for technological justice”, Andrés Ortega, Francisco Andrés Pérez (Elcano, Spain)
Technological justice can play an important role within the international system in resolving global challenges and creating a smart and […]
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China’s Balkans Silk Road: Does it pave or block the way of Western Balkans to the European Union?, Magda Stumvoll, Tobias Flessenkemper (CIFE)
in: Policy Paper 66, February 2018 Read it here
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“How to make the democratic system resilient in the new global environment of the 21st century?”András Inotai (IWE, Hungary)
In: CIFE Policy Paper N°65, Centre international de formation européenne Democracy, at least its key building process can be dated back to several […]
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Between change and continuity: Making sense of America’s evolving global engagement, Mika Aaltola, Charly Salonius-Pasternak, Juha Käpylä, Ville Sinkkonen (FIIA, Finland)
This report investigates the evolution of America’s global engagement. In particular, it examines both the longer-term trends and the more […]
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Donbas is becoming a no-man’s land: Pressures to freeze the status quo are rising, Ryhor Nizhnikau, Jussi Lassila (FIIA, Finland)
On the eve of the third anniversary of Minsk, both Kyiv and Moscow are increasingly helpless about the future of […]
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How to make the democratic system resilient in the new global environment of the 21st century?, András Inotai (CIFE)
in: Policy Paper 65 Read it here
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“Iraqi Kurdistan and Beyond: The EU’s Stakes”, Iraqi Kurdistan and Beyond: The EU’s Stakes(IAI, Italy)
Future Notes, no. 9, Menara Papers, February 2018. In 2017, Iraq saw events that dramatically changed its political and […]
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Taiwan’s role in East Asian security: Overlooked actor in a pivotal position, Jyrki Kallio (FIIA, Finland)
Taiwan is party to the same territorial disputes in the South China Sea and East China Sea as China, and […]
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“The EU, Resilience and the MENA Region”, Silvia Colombo, et. al. (eds.) (IAI, Italy)
The EU Global Strategy outlines an ambitious set of objectives to refashion the EU’s foreign and security policy. Fostering […]
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Fourth interview of the series “Klartext”: The EU-Ukrainian Association Agreement and the role of think tanks in its implementation (IEP, Germany)
Within the framework of the project “Platform for Analytics and Intercultural Communication” (PAIC), the fourth interview of the “Klartext” series […]
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MIDEU Paper published: “Strengthening Social Cohesion and a Common Identity in the Republic of Moldova” (IEP, Germany)
The paper discusses the current situation of ethnic communities in Moldova, analyses the major challenges that hinder the emergence of […]
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The Controversial Question of Jerusalem from the Point of View of International Law, Veronika Bílková (IIR, Czech Republic)
What is the basis for the concept of recognition in international law and does an act of recognizing a capital […]
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Riyahd-Tehran: intertwined destinies, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
in Elcano Blog, 23 January 2018 The Middle East must face another additional challenge: the rivalry existing between Iran and Saudi […]
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An Argentine G20: a Latin American agenda that concerns everyone, Andrés Ortega (Elcano Spain)
in Elcano Blog, 6 February 2018 The G20 agenda has steadily broadened over the years. Argentina aims to rein it in […]
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Which way for Tunisia?, Jesús A. Núñez Villaverde (Elcano, Spain)
in Elcano Blog, 8 February 2018 With global attention focused on other hotspots of conflict and tension in the Arab and […]
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The narrowing gap between nuclear and conventional weapons, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
in Elcano Blog, 13 February 2018 The nuclear arms issue is back, in its strategic rather than its tactical or battlefield […]
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A global Cold War over Artificial Intelligence, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
in Elcano Blog, 20 February 2018 There is a race, essentially between China, the US and Europe, to acquire new technologies, […]
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Venezuela and PDVSA: killing the goose that lays golden eggs, Asier Achutegui (Elcano, Spain)
in Experts Comments, 19 January 2018 In a country that depends almost entirely on its oil exports it seems very strange […]
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Portugal and Ibero-America: reflections on the past, present and future, Bernardo Ribeiro da Cunha (Elcano, Spain)
in Experts Comments, 13 February 2018 The event organised on 20 and 21 November 2017 by the Real Institute Elcano and the […]
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Latin America, the international community and Venezuela, Carlos Malamud (Elcano, Spain)
in Experts Comments, 13 February 2018 The question as to what is to be done with Venezuela has been formulated time […]
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Trump, Europe and one year into the US Presidency, Salvador Llaudes (Elcano, Spain)
in Experts Comments, 19 February 2018 Trump´s controversial attitude has remained intact during his first stay in the U.S Presidency. In […]
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Europe in the face of a new privileged strategic scenario: the Indo-Pacific region, Mario Esteban (Elcano, Spain)
in Expert Comments, 20 February 2018 The dawn of the 21st century has seen a re-balancing of the international playing field […]
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Europe-Japan cooperation for a rules-based international liberal order, Mario Esteban, Luis Simón (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 25 January 2018 Despite its shortcomings, the international liberal order is worth saving. […]
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The elections in Chile and Honduras and regional political trends in 2018, Carlos Malamud, Rogelio Núñez (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 2 February 2018 Chile and Honduras have kicked off an intense electoral period […]
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NATO and the south: opportunities for coherence and integration, Jordan Becker (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 13 February 2018 Challenges from the south present opportunities in the context of Alliance […]
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Donald Trump´s Twitter account: a brief content analysis, Juan Antonio Sánchez-Giménez, Evgueni Tchubykalo (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 15 February 2018 Donald Trump has become the first US President to actively use […]
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The EU´s external projection: some interpretations based on the Elcano Global Pressence Index, Iliana Olivié, Manuel García (Elcano, Spain)
in Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), 16 February 2018 The Elcano Global Presence Index calculates the external projection of 100 […]
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“The EU’s Power in Inter-Organisational Relations”, Hanna Ojanen (former TEPSA board member)
This new book by former TEPSA Board member Dr Hanna Ojanen studies inter-organisational relations from a new angle: power. Drawing […]
Read more“The European Union and the Geopolitics of the Arctic”, Andreas Raspotnik, former TEPSA Fellow (The Arctic Institute, US)
The Arctic is a region that has seen exponential growth as a space of geopolitical interest over the past decade. […]
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“The Czech Republic: Receiving the First Relevant Chinese Investments”, Rudolf Fürst (IIR, Czech Republic)
The new report prepared by the European Think-tank Network on China (ETNC) contains a chapter from our senior researcher and […]
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“The American President Donald Trump and “the Worst” Deal”, Miroslav Tůma (IIR, Czech Republic)
Donald Trump, as the Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 pre-election talks, began to call the agreement dealing with the […]
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Containing the Refugee Crisis: How the EU Turned the Balkans and Turkey into an EU Borderland, Jonathan Zaragoza-Cristiani (IAI, Italy)
in: “The International Spectator”, 52:4 The events that took place during the 2015-16 refugee crisis in the southeastern EU region boosted […]
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The EU-Turkey Deal One Year On: A Delicate Balancing Act, Laura Batalla Adam (IAI, Italy)
in: “The International Spectator”, 52:4, Now in its sixth year, the war in Syria has triggered the largest humanitarian and […]
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The EU and the Sahel: A Laboratory of Experimentation for the Security-Migration-Development Nexus, Bernardo Venturi (IAI, Italy)
in: IAI Working papers, 17:38, Rome The Sahel has become for the European Union an area of experimentation on the […]
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The role of Indonesia in the evolution of ASEAN, Annamária Artner (IWE, Hungary)
In: The Journal of East Asian Affairs, Vol 31. No 1, Spring/Summer 2017, pp 1-38 The study aims at examining the past and […]
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China-Russia Security Cooperation: Geopolitical signaling with limits, Elina Sinkkonen (FIIA)
China-Russia enhanced security cooperation is a form of geopolitical signalling. Despite closer relations, the coming years will tell whether such […]
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A Superpower in the Making? China’s paths to global influence, Teemu Naarajärvi (FIIA)
The People’s Republic of China, although planning to become one of the most influential states by mid-century, is not aiming […]
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US Trade Policy: America Resigns from its Leading Role as a Global Rule-setter, Johanna Jacobsson (FIIA)
Donald Trump’s first year in office is approaching its end. While the most feared scenarios in the area of US […]
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The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, Professor Tobias Schumacher, Dr Andreas Marchetti, Professor Thomas Demmelhuber (CoE, Natolin)
The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, […]
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“The geopolitics of sexual harassment”, Andrés Ortega, January 2017 (Elcano, Spain)
The sexual harassment of women has made its way onto the global agenda. The growing alarm sounded by victims of […]
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“The EU´s global normative influence”, Andrés Ortega, January 2018 (Elcano, Spain)
In the globalisation context, the EU is proving to have the capacity to regulate a strong and influential framework beyond […]
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“Europe in 2030: four alternative futures”, Luis Simón and Ulrich Speck (eds.), December 2017 (Elcano, Spain)
Europe’s future is not what it used to be. Ever since the global financial crisis broke out nearly a decade […]
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“How are the Russians celebrating the centennial of the Revolution?”, Mira Milosevich- Juaristi, December 2017 (Elcano, Spain)
For the current Russian government, the 100th anniversary of the Revolution is not a happy occasion. The Kremlin links the […]
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Major Powers in Shared Neighbourhoods: between Cooperation and Competition, Simon Schunz, Sieglinde Gstöhl and Luk van Langenhove (eds.) (CoE, Bruges)
Special issue of Contemporary Politics, vol. 24, no. 1, 2018 Contemporary global politics is characterised by multipolarity: globalisation and the […]
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“The EU, Middle Eastern powers and milieu-shaping in the ‘shared’ Arab Mediterranean neighbourhood: a story of mutual neglect”, Tobias Schumacher (CoE, Natolin Campus)
in Contemporary Politics Read it here
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“The European Neighbourhood Policy: The challenge of demarcating a complex and contested field of study”, Tobias Schumacher (CoE, Natolin Campus)
in Tobias SCHUMACHER, Andreas MARCHETTI and Thomas DEMMELHUBER (eds.), The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy, Oxon, Routledge, 2018, […]
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“Gaza Reconciliation: Burying the hatchet or changing stripes?” November 2017, Olli Ruohomäki & Wolfgang Mühlberger (FIIA, Finland)
After a decade of intra-Palestinian strife, rival factions Fatah and Hamas realised the need for a political compromise. The signature […]
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“Facing New Realities: A case for enhanced Finnish understanding of nuclear weapons”, November 2017, Leo Michel (FIIA, Finland)
After a decades-long hiatus, nuclear weapon issues have returned to the forefront of international security concerns. In recent months, […]
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“What Non-Alignment: Finland’s security and defence policy stems from partnerships”, Matti Pesu: (FIIA, Finland)
Defence cooperation has become the most important driver of Finnish external affairs. New initiatives are being launched, and ever-more […]
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“Fluid Dynamics: Global Great Powers in the 21st Century”, October 2017, Mark N. Katz (FIIA, Finland)
The great power dynamics of the 21st century is often envisioned as an emerging multipolar world in which US […]
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“Can the Africa-EU Partnership Be Revived?”, Nicoletta Pirozzi (IAI, Italy)
African and European leaders will gather in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on 29-30 November for the fifth African Union (AU)-European Union […]
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“Cold War Modalities – Do They Have a Chance in the Gulf? “, Erzsébet N. Rózsa (IWE, Hungary)
In Niblock, Tim, Talmiz Ahmad, and Degang Sun, eds., Conflict Resolution and Creation of a Security Community in the Gulf […]
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Background report: “German-American Dialogue on the Post-Soviet Space: “From ambition to pragmatism?” (IEP, Berlin)
On 28 and 29 November 2017, the fourth workshop of the German-American Dialogue on the Post-Soviet Space was held, in […]
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“The European Union must effectively develop energy relations with global producers and partners”, Lukáš Tichý, Nikita Odintsov, Jan Mazač, Jan Prouza, a Michaela Prouzová (IIR, Prague)
There are almost no oil or gas resources in the EU. To strengthen its energy security, the EU has taken […]
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“ILR: Kurdistan and Catalonia as New States?”, Tamás Lattmann (IIR, Prague)
During the recent weeks, two major referenda have taken place with a serious ambition: to create new states by secession, […]
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A time of general distrust, Andrés Ortega (Elcano Institute)
Distrust permeates our societies: distrust in governments, in parliaments, in the news media, and even corporations have lost ground in […]
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«America First» undermines the West, Andrés Ortega (Elcano Institute)
Just a few months into his presidency Donald Trump has pulled out of the Paris climate change agreement, consigned the […]
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The challenges of Rohani’s second term, Luciano Zaccara (Elcano Institute)
What are the domestic constraints (from the Revolutionary Guard to economic restrictions) and the external challenges (from the new tightening […]
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Japan’s rosy short-term outlook masks the failure of Abenomics , Alicia Garcia Herrero & Kohei Iwahara (Elcano Institute)
The Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzō Abe, won a majority in the elections to the Lower House of parliament held […]
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“The foreign policy of Xi Jinping after the 19th Congress: China strives for a central role on the world stage”, Mario Esteban (Elcano Institute)
Over the coming five years Xi Jinping will undertake a more assertive foreign policy aimed at increasing Chinese influence on […]
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The European Union’s Evolving External Engagement: Towards New Sectoral Diplomacies?, Damro, Chad, Sieglinde Gstöhl & Simon Schunz eds. (CoE, Bruges)
Abingdon, Routledge, 2018. In recent decades, an expansion of the European Union’s external policy portfolio can be observed as previously […]
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The second interview of the “Klartext” series with Ukrainian think tanks, Mathias Jopp eds. (IEP, Germany)
Within the framework of the project “Platform for Analytics and Intercultural Communication” (PAIC) the second interview of the “Klartext” series […]
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Kremlin’s Puzzle: How To Frame Putin’s Re-election?, Mark Galeotti (IIR, Czech Republic)
This autumn marks the start of an insecure election year in Russia. On 18 March 2018 Putin will most likely […]
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Not-So-Soft Power: Russia’s Military Police in Syria, Mark Galeotti (IIR, Czech Republic)
Earlier this month, in Syria’s Idlib Governorate, 29 Russians found themselves encircled by fighters from the rebel front Tahrir al-Sham (which Moscow still […]
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Russian Strategy in the Age of Dmitry Medvedev, Lukáš Tichý (IIR, Czech Republic)
The aim of this article is to analyze the main characteristic features of the security culture of the Russian Federation […]
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Resilience in the Western Balkans, Sabina Lange (ed.) (EIPA, Maastricht)
Resilience in the Western Balkans, Edited by: Sabina Kajnč Lange, Zoran Nechev, Florian Trauner According to the 2016 EU Global […]
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The Communist Party convenes in China: What is in the tea leaves?, Jyrki Kallio (FIIA, Finland)
The Communist Party of China is meeting to set up guidelines for the next five years. Although Chinese society is […]
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The North Korean Conundrum: International responses and future challenges, Elina Sinkkonen ed. (FIIA, Finland)
The North Korean threat for global security is growing. This report provides an overview of the so-called North Korea problem […]
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EU Aid and Development Planning in the Occupied West Bank, Andrea Dessì (IAI, Italy)
On 4 October 2017 senior diplomats, NGO experts, researchers and academics participated in an international seminar co-organized by the Istituto […]
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Do regional organizations contribute to security? Perspectives on Euro-Mediterranean cooperation, Niklas Bremberg (UI, Sweden)
in Handbook of Mediterranean Politics by Richard Gillespie and Frédéric Volpi (Ed.), 2018 Read it here
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Horizontal Issues, Mark Rhinard (UI, Sweden)
in After the EU Global Strategy – Building resilience by Florence Gaub and Nicu Popescu (Ed.), May 2017 As the EUGS […]
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Transatlantic turbulence – implications for European security, Björn Fägersten (UI, Sweden)
in: UI Brief no. 8 June 2017* A few years ago some suggested that Europe’s political situation could best be […]
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‘The EU member states’ representation and positioning and the north-south divide in Euro-Mediterranean affairs’, Tobias Schumacher (College of Europe, Natolin)
in Richard Gillespie and Frederic Volpi (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Mediterranean Politics, Oxon: Routledge, 85-96. Read more here
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Will there be a Kurdish state?, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
Elcano Blog, October 2017 Terrorism, oil, the crisis in Iraq, the Syrian civil war and the burden of geopolitics all […]
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Trump’s foreign policy: the revolution has not happened – yet, Ulrich Speak (Elcano, Spain)
Expert Comments, October 2017 After eight months with Trump in office, US foreign policy is characterised not by disruption but […]
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The shrinking Euro-Mediterranean policy space, Gonzalo Escribano (Elcano, Spain)
Analyses by Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), September 2017 The transformations that have taken place in the EU’s Mediterranean Neighbourhood have […]
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Transforming the United Nations: countering the US budget-cut threats, Jessica Almqvist (Elcano, Spain)
Analyses by Elcano Royal Institute (ARI), September 2017 The US threat of budget cuts or other means of reducing the […]
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