Tag: ECFR

Economic arm-twisting is on the rise. Europe must learn how to resist it (Jonathan Hackenbroich, Pawel Zerka, ECFR)

Economic coercion is the new language of great power politics. Breaking its erstwhile promise, globalisation did not eradicate conflict from the world. Instead, it...

Europe’s stance on Sudan: Why backing the prime minister may not equate to backing democracy (Theodore Murphy, ECFR)

At a hastily convened signing ceremony on Sunday morning, Sudan’s prime minister, Abdalla Hamdouk, and General Fatah al Burhan inked a deal to resume the civilian-military...

Germany/China. The China factor in the German election (Janka Oertel, ECFR)

  Germans are known for their fondness for the status quo. The mere fact that Chancellor Angela Merkel has been in office for 16 years...

Afghanistan/Europe. Why Afghanistan was not a failure of European strategic autonomy (Ulrike Franke, ECFR)

German forces near Camp Marmal during a patrol outside of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan November 2009 Image byResoluteSupportMedia The war in Afghanistan is over – at least for...

Germany. Flash in the pan: Flooding in Germany and the politics of climate (Fafael Loss, ECFR)

Floods in Altenahr, Germany, July 2021. Image byMartin Seifert CC0 Ten years ago, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan underwent a meltdown. Radiation was released...

Europe. Europe’s invisible divides: How covid-19 is polarising European politics (Ivan Krastev, Mark Leonard, ECFR)

Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels - Image byRonn Aldaman Europe’s covid-19 experience has been a tale of two pandemics – and the...

Fisheries Policies/Indo Pacific/China/Europe. Fish and ships: Chinese fishing and Europe’s Indo-Pacific strategy (ECFR)

Frédéric Grare The fisheries sector has gradually become a central geopolitical issue in the Indo-Pacific. Out of the 84.4m tonnes of fish caught in seas across the...

Afghanistan/Germany. Germany and Afghanistan: Time to ditch bad governments, not good governance (ECFR)

Christoph Heusgen The Afghanistan operation was a textbook mission: we applied a comprehensive approach to crisis management. We knew the challenges we faced could not...

Afghanistan. How it could have been different (ECFR)

Carl Bildt The 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attack will now coincide with the consolidation of the second Taliban emirate in Afghanistan, greeted by...

Afghanistan/Europe. Three lessons for Europe from the fall of Afghanistan (ECFR)

Jean-Marie Guéhenno Europe needs to take a hard look at what worked and what did not work in Afghanistan. Only then can it gradually and...

Belarus – Belarus’s creature of crisis: Two heads, one body (ECFR)

Pavel Slunkin In the decades since Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s first and only fair presidential election victory in 1994, two Belaruses have coexisted inside the same borders....

Europe/Denmark/Sweden/Finland – Nordic discomfort: How Denmark, Sweden, and Finland could harm the European project (ECFR)

Marlene Riedel Hear the word “Denmark”, and you may well think of “hygge”, bikes, and scenic coastlines. Similar images likely spring to mind with all the...

Europe – Europe needs a change in mindset on technology and geopolitics (ECFR)

Ulrike Franke writes: The European Union has been busy. It has just unveiled the world’s first plans to regulate artificial intelligence, an effort that has...

Europe/Lebanon – People before politicians: How Europeans can help rebuild Lebanon (ECFR)

Carmen Geha writes: The magnitude, nature, and timing of the August 2020 Beirut port explosion could not have been worse for Lebanon’s faltering economy,...

Bulgaria/Europe/Climate Change – Bulgaria’s abstention from the fight against climate change (ECFR)

Maria Simeonova and Mariya Trifonova write: In late June, the Council of the European Union gave the green light to the first European Climate...

Europe/NATO – Four ways Europeans can help refocus NATO (Marta Dassù, ECFR)

As the nature of global security shifts; as China rises; and with Joe Biden in the White House, it is time for Europeans to...