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Deep Dive into Russia: Russia's view on the future of arms control
Andrey Baklitskiy - 8 June, 2020
Andrey Baklitsky, a consultant at PIR Center Moscow, analyses the current picture of arms control since the US withdrawal from the INF treaty and how this could impact the strategic stability in the global order and draw the Russian countermeasures.
Serbia and coronavirus propaganda: High time for a transactional EU
Majda Ruge, Nicu Popescu - 4 June, 2020
It is time for the EU to direct much more of its financial assistance through channels other than highly corrupt governments that consistently violate European norms and standards.
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Deep Dive into Russia: Bolsheviks under lockdown
Yuri Slezkine - 3 June, 2020
Yuri Slezkine is Professor of Russian history and Director of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and currently visiting fellow at Oxford. He's an author of several books, the latest being "The House of…
Policy Brief
A new Gaza: Turkey’s border policy in northern Syria
Asli Aydıntaşbaş - 28 May, 2020
EU member states can find ways to cooperate with Turkey to support stabilisation in parts of the safe zone, without violating their interests and core principle
The least predictable Belarusian election in decades
Andrew Wilson - 28 May, 2020
The Belarusian presidential election campaign features at least three candidates the government cannot control or ignore – all of whom have the potential to reach a broad audience.
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Deep Dive into Russia: the Russian worldview after the pandemic: 'Nichts Neues'
Fyodor Lukyanov - 27 May, 2020
This week in the ‘Deep Dive into Russia’ we will have with us Fyodor Lukyanov, a professor at the Higher School of Economics and Chairman of SVOP (Council on Foreign and Defense Policy). Lukyanov's talk titled “Russian worldview after pandemic: Nichts…
How a US withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty would benefit the Kremlin
Gustav Gressel - 27 May, 2020
A US withdrawal from the agreement would shift the blame from a non-compliant Moscow onto Washington, fuelling anti-Americanism and, perhaps, calls for a US military withdrawal from Europe.
Podcast
The last of the offended: Russia’s first post-Putin diplomats
Kadri Liik - 25 May, 2020
Kadri Liik presented her latest policy brief "The last of the offended: Russia’s first post-Putin diplomats" in a webinar organised by the Rome Office on 25 May 2020. Russia’s new generation of foreign policy professionals brings with them a shift in attitudes…
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Policy Brief
A new Gaza: Turkey’s border policy in northern Syria
Asli Aydıntaşbaş - 28 May, 2020
EU member states can find ways to cooperate with Turkey to support stabilisation in parts of the safe zone, without violating their interests and core principle
Policy Brief
A problem shared: Russia and the transformation of Europe’s eastern neighbourhood
Dumitru Minzarari and Vadim Pistrinciuc - 23 April, 2020
Failure to strengthen Eastern Partnership states could strengthen Russia and allow authoritarianism to diffuse westward into the EU
Policy Brief
The power of perspective: Why EU membership still matters in the Western Balkans
Beáta Huszka - 7 January, 2020
The EU should demonstrate its commitment to the Western Balkans by encouraging countries there to resolve their outstanding disputes
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Policy Brief
Zelensky unchained: What Ukraine’s new political order means for its future
Joanna Hosa, Andrew Wilson - 25 September, 2019
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The other Putin on Europe’s doorstep (Commentary)
Mark Leonard - 04 August 2020
By weaponising immigration and launching new foreign adventures, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is increasingly acting like his Russian counterpart. And though such behaviour speaks to a deteriorating political situation at home, Europeans can no longer assume that Turkey will remain firmly in the Western fold.
The inevitable partner: Why Europe needs to re-engage with Africa (Commentary)
Vladimir Shopov - 30 July 2020
EU-Africa relations are characterised by a series of failed beginnings. They continue to suffer from a lack of deep and far-reaching political will, despite being the subject of a series of diplomatic initiatives in the past two decades.
Why analysts in Moscow dismiss the UK Parliament’s Russia report (Commentary)
Kadri Liik - 30 July 2020
The July 2020 report by the UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee is part of a wider and somewhat depressing phenomenon: Western countries’ analyses of what Russia is doing are often mediocre in the eyes of those in Moscow.
A Schuman plan for the eastern Mediterranean (Commentary)
Anna Diamantopoulou - 23 July 2020
The EU should look to its own history as it aims to secure its own interests and resolve tensions in the eastern Mediterranean.
Turkey and Europe: Growing tensions and a hot summer in the Mediterranean (Commentary)
Asli Aydıntaşbaş - 23 July 2020
Europe needs a grand bargain with Turkey that can create a short- and longer-term conflict-resolution framework covering energy, maritime boundaries, the Cyprus conflict, and Libya.
A country under the influence: Russian interference in British politics (Commentary)
Nick Witney - 23 July 2020
The UK’s ostensible new “ethical foreign policy” stands up to little scrutiny – not least as the government’s preferred form of Brexit limits chances it will ever enact such a policy.
An election in Belarus: How the West could support a marginalised opposition (Commentary)
Andrew Wilson - 21 July 2020
In the run-up to a difficult election for President Alexander Lukashenka, the three main opposition candidates have been excluded from the vote and there have been mass arrests. Western countries should try to deter further repression in Belarus without isolating the country.
Russia showed Turkey and China how to bully the EU (Commentary)
Nicu Popescu - 17 July 2020
The more meekly the EU handles other powers’ aggressive tactics, the more they will be tempted to imitate each other in novel ways to ignore, challenge, and openly attack European interests.
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