President Yanukovych could be a ‘Ukrainian Nixon’: Just as Nixon used his anti-communist credentials to pave his engagement with China, Yanukovych could use his pro-Russian credentials to reassure Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population while reaching out to Europe
ECFR agenda: multilateralism and bison grass vodka
Policy Brief podcast: Dealing with Yanukovych’s Ukraine
ECFR reports: the risk posed by Cyber Warfare
ECFR español: Kosovo - la situación tras la independencia
The Yanukovych Paradox – How the new Ukrainian president can be good news for Europe.
The Economist’s Charlemagne asks: if Obama’s American can’t make soft power work, what hope does Europe have? Richard Gowan answers: it has to work. Europe has no other option.
There is no way back from Kosovo’s declaration of independence - we must accept this and start helping to build a prosperous nation.
“Whatever works”. Is this Obama’s key Asia policy?
Debate over how to help a crisis-striken Bosnia ranges from involvement to encouragement. But a third, unpalatable option for a frustrated EU may lurk just behind the scenes: abandonment
Andrew Wilson has formed an advisory group to launch a substantive intra-EU dialogue on Russia and the Eastern Neighbourhood. The group met for the first time in Brussels last week.
The Head of ECFR’s Sofia office has been appointed spokesperson for the Bulgarian MFA.
The Yanukovych Paradox: How Ukraine’s new president can be good news for Europe after all.
The latest issue of China Analysis looks at Beijing’s willingness to strengthen international economic governance, and its authors argue that much thinking in China seems to focus on the short term
The authors of the latest issue of China Analysis argue that Western concerns over “Chindia” - the emergence of a Sino-Indian economic power bloc or strategic alliance - may be unwarranted.
Europe has the US president it wished for, but does Barack Obama have the strong transatlantic partner he wants?
Have broken promises and treating Afghanistan, DR Congo and Iraq like Bosnia left the EU without the capacity to prevent fragile states from becoming failing states?
ECFR publishes a collection of views from key Russian intellectuals.
The EU’s ongoing loss of influence at the UN is putting lives at risk, argues the author of ECFR’s latest paper.
Fears in Europe that China works to lock the US into a “G2” embrace so as to dominate the global agenda do not reflect Chinese experts’ current strategic thinking.
Is a complacent strategy that focuses on gradual change rather than crises losing the EU its battle with Russia for influence in the eastern neighbourhood?
The EU has an opportunity to influence President Obama’s efforts to reform US counterterrorism policy
China is exploiting the EU’s divisions and treating the 27-state bloc with “diplomatic contempt” on issues ranging from trade to the Dalai Lama.
Will the military surge in Afghanistan fail without a civilian surge?
With the pivotal change of leadership in Washington, the US and the EU may have an ideal moment to strengthen the US-EU institutional bond.
Could building a single European market in natural gas be the most effective strategy for the European Union in countering Russia’s divisive energy diplomacy?
In a joint research project with FRIDE, ECFR looks at the EU’s record in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Ukraine, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco.
The EU’s leverage to promote human rights through the UN has dramatically declined over the last decade, our exclusive report reveals.
This authors analyse the background and developments in the Russia-Georgia conflict and outline recommendations on how to prevent wider political fallout.
European governments cannot afford to move at the speed of the slowest, argues Nick Witney, and should push for a ‘multi-speed’ Europe on ESDP
Thomas Klau on what the Germans think about the PIGS countries.
Richard Gowan comments on the proposed UK-France defense alliance.
A story on Merkel’s US trip quoting Witney and Shapiro’s transatlantic report.
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