Syria

Rem Korteweg
18 September 2013

The Syrian crisis has split Europe and the US. They should push for a common Security Council position, but an ambiguous resolution may lead to military action and further division.
Russia & Syria

Rem Korteweg, Judy Dempsey
18 September 2013

Following a Russian initiative, Moscow and Washington have reached an agreement that calls for Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by mid-2014.
Global governance

Charles Grant
29 February 2012

Will the 'multipolar' world have strong international institutions, or will balance-of-power politics prevail? The attitudes of Russia and China will be crucial.
Russia's president

Charles Grant
02 August 2011

In Moscow, the speculation about Russia’s next president is becoming tedious. Dmitry Medvedev has made it clear he would like to run again, but most people think Vladimir Putin, prime minister, will be the official candidate and win March’s election.
But does it matter whether President Medvedev continues, Mr Putin returns...
Transatlantic rift

Tomas Valasek
26 January 2011

You might call it the Obama paradox: Atlanticists on both sides of the ocean were certain that this president, inaugurated two years ago, would renew the transatlantic alliance.

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Drinking the Kool-Aid

Mark Leonard

01 February 2006

Prospect

Was the Iraq adventure doomed to fail or did the US administration mess it up? A new crop of books suggests that the nation-builders of Iraq were fighting the right war in theory but not in practice.
The Iraq war started as a war of ideas. It erupted from the most...

India tilts to the west as the world's new poles emerge

Charles Grant

12 January 2006

The Guardian

Nothing is permanent in history, including America's domination of the global economic and political systems. Assuming China and India keep growing at their current rates, the unipolar world of recent years - topped by the US - will be replaced by a multipolar world within a few decades.
Once its "unipolar...

The geopolitics of 2026

Mark Leonard

02 January 2006

The Economist

History is traced not is straight lines but in jagged and discontinuous strokes. But what if the future follows a more predictable path?

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