Now in its 60th year, NATO no longer provides a healthy basis for the trans-Atlantic security relationship. As it enters its twilight years, Europeans must now start to earn the balanced strategic partnership with the US they say they want. America could help, by upgrading the US-EU strategic dialogue.
The EU’s leverage to promote human rights through the UN has dramatically declined over the last decade, our exclusive report reveals.
Our backgrounder on the Russia-Georgia conflict and recommendations on how to prevent wider political fallout.
European governments cannot afford to move at the speed of the slowest and should push for a ‘multi-speed’ Europe on ESDP.
The international coalition should overhaul their Afghanistan strategy and strike a ‘grand bargain’ to stabilise the war-torn country.
Over 70 of ECFR’s Council Members will gather in Tallinn on 6-7 November, 2008 to discuss the organisation’s research and advocacy agenda.
For his important efforts on several continents and over more than three decades to resolve international conflicts, ECFR co-chair receives Nobel Peace Prize.
Undoing Bush’s foreign policy legacy will be a huge challenge for Obama. But what can Europe do to help?
When Barack Obama enters the White House as president in January 2009, what will change for the Balkans?
All being well with Europe, the Treaty of Lisbon would now have been ready to come into force on 1 January. But all is not well.
The world’s severe economic downturn must be addressed alongside and not to the exclusion of other problems, says ECFR Council Member Andre Wilkens.
With a new US president, what are the prospects for a more united trans-Atlantic position on how to deal with a resurgent Russia and the ‘neighbourhood’ states in between?
Once he enters office, President Obama will bring a profound challenge to the comfortable introversion of many EU governments.
The Economist quotes Ulrike Guérot in an opinion piece on Chancellor Merkel
An article on the “EU enquiry” into the Georgia war quoting Nicu Popescu.
An opinion piece refers to our latest policy brief on the EU and Russian gas
A leading columnist comments on Mark Leonard’s book, What does China Think?
Torreblanca is interviewed on Zapatero’s special invitation to the G20 Summit.
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