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Chantal Lavallée. ARI 59/2018 - 26/4/2018.
The European Commission has been pushing for deeper European cooperation in the security and defence sector for the past two decades despite the reluctance of the member states.
Richard Higgott. ARI 47/2018 - 10/4/2018.
An open multilateral trade system is under direct challenge from the policies of President Donald Trump. The year 2018 will be crucial.
Jordan Becker. ARI 18/2018 - 13/2/2018.
The evolving security environment to Europe’s South poses important challenges to NATO, demanding coherence between projecting stability and collective defence.
Mario Esteban & Luis Simon. ARI 10/2018 - 25/1/2018.
Despite its shortcomings, the international liberal order is worth saving. Therefore, international actors committed to that system, such as the EU and Japan, should cooperate in its revitalisation.
Luis Simón & Ulrich Speck (eds.). Elcano Policy Paper 2/2017 - 26/12/2017.
The broader question looming over this exercise is whether Europe will be a geopolitical subject or an object, ie, an actor in its own right or a playground for great-power competition. It sketches out four possible answers that rely on the views of four foreign-policy experts on how the future of Europe in 2030 might unfold.
Ulrich Speck. Expert Comment 46/2017 - 23/10/2017.
A ‘great leap forward’ in European integration is very unlikely to occur in the German-French discussions on the EU, which will probably start in early 2018.
Ulrich Speck. Expert Comment 39/2017 - 19/9/2017.
After eight months with Trump in office, US foreign policy is characterised not by disruption but by continuity. The Trump revolution in foreign policy has not happened.
Ulrich Speck. ARI 67/2017 - 11/9/2017.
Putting its weight behind the status quo is at the core of Germany’s emerging grand strategy. This involves keeping the EU up, the US in, and Russia and China out.
Ulrich Speck. Expert Comment 24/2017 - 29/5/2017 .
Those in the West who argue in favour of detente, of an easing of sanctions and a rapprochement with the Kremlin, find it much more difficult to defend this course of action because of the rising anger over Russian political warfare tactics.
Rubén Díaz-Plaja. ARI 40/2017 - 18/5/2017.
At NATO’s Warsaw Summit in 2016, allied leaders announced not only major changes to their collective defence posture but also their commitment to ‘projecting stability’ beyond their borders.
