The Brown-Sarkozy summit in late March will offer a great opportunity to boost defence cooperation between the UK and France. But real progress will require a determined exercise of will by the two leaders
European defence chiefs should help improve the EU’s lacklustre performance in Afghanistan
Kosovo?s independence will require restraint and calm by all parties. Even so, it will present a number of key challenges for the EU
Spielberg was right to step down but governments should look at China’s policies within a historical context, and have a strategy for influencing Beijing beyond the summer of 2008
In the past few years, almost all of East Asia’s fully fledged democracies have changed leadership – but this has gone rather unnoticed by European observers who focus on China alone
China is emerging not just as an economic giant, but as a powerhouse of ideas about politics, economics and world order. Its own model of globalisation could re-shape much of the world
If the European Union is to succeed in Chad, it will need to design an integrated response, covering political, development and military action alike
Kosovo’s imminent independence – while the right course – raises difficult questions about some elements of the European project
There are two sure signs that France’s defence review is entering its end-game: a new imprecision has crept into forecasts of when the outcome will be published (“spring”); and interesting disclosures are beginning to appear
The gap between the EU’s rhetorical and actual commitment to democracy and human rights could lead to growing international scepticism about the EU’s role on the global stage