UK Home Secretary Theresa May made a Statement to Parliament on July 9th stating that the Government intends to exercise an opt-out from 130 police and criminal justice measures. What will be the impact on UK-Irish relations?
In the wake of street protests in Turkey, Russia and Brazil, Index on Censorship and the European Council on Foreign Relations are holding a timely debate on the shifting world order and its impact on rights and freedoms
The discussion will examine recent changes in US drone policy announced by President Barack Obama, consider what the right standard for regulating drones should be, and explore the possibility of the US and European states working together on rules for the new era of drone warfare
This meeting, with George Lawson from the LSE and Mark Johnson from The Economist will explore the factors behind the new wave of protests, examining the role of information technology, economic context and social and demographic change
This discussion will explore what the EU can and should do to exercise its competence over investment policy efficiently, and especially in the case of politicized investor-related disputes.
After over three weeks of intense protests, Turkish analysts Karabekir Akkoyunlu and Ziya Meral will look at the implications and fallout from these demonstrations
Tom Wright from Brookings will discuss how the United States and its allies should adjust their strategy to preserve and strengthen the international order in a more geopolitically competitive world
More and more citizens are revolting against Europe and, where they see them as extensions of “Brussels”, against national institutions too. While Centrist elites are besieged by populism, large swaths of the populations seems definitively lost for the European project
Should Europe simply retire from global governance? Or are there assets on which it can draw in order to play an influential role as a new world order emerges? This event is free and open to all
Dr Manna will lay out his thoughts on the competing ambitions of regime and opposition forces, deteriorating domestic and regional fault lines, particularly deepening sectarianism, as well as his own vision for a way forward