Risk of instability in the Western Balkans: the EU can no longer 'wait-and-see'.
The Yanukovych Paradox: How Ukraine’s new president can be good news for Europe after all.
ECFR publishes a collection of views from key Russian intellectuals.
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?
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?
This authors analyse the background and developments in the Russia-Georgia conflict and outline recommendations on how to prevent wider political fallout.
An in-depth analysis of the political context of Dmitry Medvedev’s rise, focusing on the behind-the-scenes manipulation by ‘political technologists’.
An in-depth analysis of the new Polish government’s foreign policy, focusing on new personalities shaping the agenda as well as plans to improve relations with Germany and Russia.
Despite its economic strength and military might, the EU has begun to behave as if it were subordinate to an increasingly assertive Russia. Read ECFR’s “Power Audit” of EU-Russia relations.
Thomas Klau on Germany’s linchpin role in the eurozone governance debate.
Ulrike Guerot on Germany's place in Europe, post euro crisis.
Andrew Wilson says Ukraine's greatest success has been its 'survival'.
Commentary
Preventing the next generation of Kosovos
At a time of constrained budgets, getting the EU to invest more in conflict prevention and human rights protection in faraway places like Sudan and Kyrgyzstan may be a hard sell. But, as Richard Gowan argues, the alternative is another generation of Kosovos.
Kosovo: statehood isn’t the problem
In its advisory opinion of 22 July 2010, the International Court of Justice said that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 "did not violate general international law". But is statehood the real question hanging over Kosovo? Richard Gowan believes that corruption, rather than statehood, is the biggest issue facing Kosovo.
The BRIC bloc
The Political West (the US, Europe and Japan) are in the doldrums while the BRICs keep growing. A third of world economic growth in the last decade has taken place in BRIC countries. So far, so good for the BRICs. But what next?
Kyrgyzstan: Russia’s Rwanda
Just as France maintained links with its former colonies in Central Africa, Moscow has maintained ties with the former Soviet Republics in Central Asia. In light of the recent violence in its backyard nation of Kyrgyzstan, what lessons can Russia learn from France’s experience in Central Africa?
The Rostov summit
Russian and EU leaders will gather in Rostov-on-Don for their bi-annual summit on 31 May – 1 June. The geographical symbolism is not good: Rostov is only a few kilometres from Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The political mood leading up to the summit seems a little better.
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