What place should the international community give to justice and accountability in its response to conflicts involving mass atrocities? A new ECFR project analyses a series of cases where international efforts to end conflict have taken different approaches to justice
The most problematic component of political and strategic competition in the MENA region has been the cultivation and manipulation of sectarian agendas. The Geneva meetings over Iran's nuclear programme, however, may prove to be the beginning of the end to the region’s most troublesome conflict.
Fingers are pointing to the French for stalling a joint statement between the E3+3 and Iran over its nuclear programme. But there's still room to remain positive about the pace at which diplomacy can come to fruition in these talks.
ECFR experts discuss interesting and thought-provoking books and articles: Financialisation – The Economics of Finance Capital Domination by Thomas I. Palley, Cypherpunks…
The public outrage that the NSA has spawned could be more damaging to the transatlantic relationship than the Iraq war was a decade ago. The real toxicity of the NSA revelations is that they replace a sense of shared values with deep public mistrust on both sides of the Atlantic.
What do Edward Snowden's revelations about the extent of US espionage ambitions mean for Europe? Bookshelf recommendations: Financialisation – The Economics of…
European current architecture has shown its weaknesses and today everybody seems aware of this. To overcome the crisis, we now need a real breakthrough which will enable Europe to come back as a global actor.
Quale futuro per l'Europa?
El auge de los partidos nacionalistas en Europa y la situación española. Conversación entre Àngels Barceló, José Ignacio Torreblanca y José María…
There has been consensus amongst the negotiators that the discussions had been positively led by Iran in a very different manner than previous talks. The key message from these rounds of talks is that the Iranian team provided details for their proposal rather than a vague or impractical framework.