The international community needs to get serious about helping Afghanistan and stop rewarding human rights abuses.
An open letter urging EU visa liberalisation for Kosovo. Signed by Giuliano Amato, Otto Schily, Gerald Knaus and Mark Leonard, among others.
La desunión transatlántica en materia antiterrorista ha causado problemas legales y ha impedido emitir un mensaje que redujera el atractivo de Al Qaeda.
Equatorial Guinea is a deplorable tyranny, and that Obiang has no intention of building a democracy.
The Honduras coup is intolerable. The EU should remain aware of its responsibilities and capacity for influence in conflicts that have international repercussions.
Bulgarians go to polls on Sunday. Instead of enhancing the fledgling democracy, the elections have increased feelings of uncertainty concerning Bulgaria’s democratic future.
Iran’s political fate carries great implications for Europeans, and the EU’s traditional negotiation methods might not be enough.
Europe must seize the opportunity presented by Obama’s desire to close Guantanamo.
Twenty years after the massacre in Tiananmen Square, the EU should must help enforce the rule of law in China.
The EU should cooperate more with the UN in peacekeeping missions if it wants to show its ‘effective multilateralism’ is backed up by muscle.
Obama is redefining the fight against terrorism. But he has come up against some stiff criticism and urgently needs the EU’s help.
Now that the fighting in Sri Lanka is over, attention must focus on reconciliation.
The debacle in the UN could be the precursor of more clashes over human rights, with Europe as a target.
The neo-liberal discourse dominant in the last three decades has collapsed. But what is the state of the European Left?
The African Union could lean a lot from the EU if it wants to become a serious union of African states.
The latest issue of China Analysis looks at Beijing’s willingness to strengthen international economic governance, and its authors argue that much thinking in China seems to focus on the short term
The authors of the latest issue of China Analysis argue that Western concerns over “Chindia” - the emergence of a Sino-Indian economic power bloc or strategic alliance - may be unwarranted.
Europe has the US president it wished for, but does Barack Obama have the strong transatlantic partner he wants?
Have broken promises and treating Afghanistan, DR Congo and Iraq like Bosnia left the EU without the capacity to prevent fragile states from becoming failing states?
ECFR publishes a collection of views from key Russian intellectuals.
The EU’s ongoing loss of influence at the UN is putting lives at risk, argues the author of ECFR’s latest paper.
Fears in Europe that China works to lock the US into a “G2” embrace so as to dominate the global agenda do not reflect Chinese experts’ current strategic thinking.
Is a complacent strategy that focuses on gradual change rather than crises losing the EU its battle with Russia for influence in the eastern neighbourhood?
The EU has an opportunity to influence President Obama’s efforts to reform US counterterrorism policy
China is exploiting the EU’s divisions and treating the 27-state bloc with “diplomatic contempt” on issues ranging from trade to the Dalai Lama.
Will the military surge in Afghanistan fail without a civilian surge?
With the pivotal change of leadership in Washington, the US and the EU may have an ideal moment to strengthen the US-EU institutional bond.
Could building a single European market in natural gas be the most effective strategy for the European Union in countering Russia’s divisive energy diplomacy?
In a joint research project with FRIDE, ECFR looks at the EU’s record in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco.
The EU’s leverage to promote human rights through the UN has dramatically declined over the last decade, our exclusive report reveals.
This authors analyse the background and developments in the Russia-Georgia conflict and outline recommendations on how to prevent wider political fallout.
European governments cannot afford to move at the speed of the slowest, argues Nick Witney, and should push for a ‘multi-speed’ Europe on ESDP
A piece on the EU and Ukraine, quoting Wilson and Popescu’s recent report.
Korski: “The Anglo-American strategy in Afghanistan has hit an absolute low mark.”
Daniel Korski on what lies ahead for Baroness Ashton.