Europe and the rise of the world’s lynchpin states
While Europe focuses on India and China, a host of medium-sized emerging powers are helping to reshape global diplomacy. Is Europe ready for the rise of the lynchpin states?
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Britain?s defence review: the real strategic questions
Britain’s defence review must take on board how much the world has changed since the late 1900s and focus on preserving Britain’s power and influence, both in and through Europe
‘Worried 27’ seeking reassurance
ECFR agony uncle Richard Gowan offers reassurance to ‘Worried 27’ about their unrequited transatlantic love
Tough snub
Obama’s snub of the May EU-US summit is tough, but fair. If it wants to be taken seriously on the world stage, the EU must stop complaining and learn from this and other recent disappointments
The 20 year crisis
Response to the Haiti tragedy; the struggling mission in Afghanistan; the economic crisis. The west is in a ’20 year crisis’.
Obama kicks the European ant nest
Obama’s decision to cancel his attendance to the EU summit in Madrid forces Europe to do some heavy thinking
How to deal with a more assertive China?
Western governments need to show they are getting serious. Otherwise we will end up with another Copenhagen.
Visible immigrants
The only relevant question about immigrants is whether or not their children will go to university
Too many cooks
After nearly a decade of effort, the Lisbon Treaty is finally in place ? and Europeans finally have the chance to develop the unified voice and combined weight in the world that we all now understand to be necessary. Yet Europe?s national leaders seem unable to curb the sort of self-indulgent behaviour that will sabotage this historic opportunity.
Leading without Chairing: Spain?s EU Presidency under the Lisbon Treaty
For a middleweight country like Spain, the most successful means of exerting influence on the world stage is to exert influence in the EU