Commentary

The energy-security nexus in south-east Europe

Connecting the energy islands in south-east Europe will help build a region that can act as a strategic partner for the EU in the broader energy-security nexus

Winner-takes-all politics in Libya

Death sentence for Saif Al Islam Gheddafi shows Libya's winner-takes-all politics of exclusion 

Public opinion and propaganda in Russia

Putin's popularity goes beyond a personality cult. Reasserting great power status in the minds of Russians is at the heart of his success

The clash of European democracies

Europe needs greater political consensus and increased convergence or rapprochement between its different societies