Getting Afghanistan Off Drugs
Destroying the poppy fields hasn’t worked. The US should focus on long-term development to solve Afghanistan’s drug problem
Asia
Nuke Proliferation Stirs
As the world is approaching a new chapter in the proliferation of nuclear weapons, Iran and North Korea require a coordinated response, warns Fran?ois Godement
Europe needs to look again at Pakistan
Pakistan is the pivot around which revolves peace on the Indian subcontinent and the success of NATO’s mission to Afghanistan, argues Korski. But EU?s policy towards that country resembles its old technocratic and apolitical approach
Hugging the panda
There is nothing wrong in engaging China rather than antagonizing her: but Europe must coordinate its human rights policy towards Beijing
A time for China to see a coordinated Europe
In response to the Chinese Premier?s European tour, John Fox argues that Europe’s national interests must be put aside
China’s Europe tour overshadowed by US relations
Fran?ois Godement argues the Chinese Premier’s European trip will do little to mask recent diplomatic disputes
It’s Tibet, not the economy, stupid
China?s cancellation of the planned bilateral summit with the EU is a brutal and unprecedented warning of how little Europe means to China
Three fault lines
Pakistan, Congo and Ukraine are three fault lines separating us from the future
Enhancing the EU’s role in Afghanistan
A new US president will want to see a significant enhancement of the European effort in Afghanistan. The issue is likely to be viewed in Washington as a litmus test of whether Europeans should be taken seriously as strategic partners
China – a challenge for the long term
The basis of a new EU-US partnership should be close trans-Atlantic coordination and cooperation on China at every level, harmonising positions and pooling leverage and influence