Publications

This paper focuses on the 2014 European Parliamentary elections and how rising euroscepticism might impact their results. Indeed, if the eurosceptic parties garner a sufficient number of votes, they w...chevron_right

This paper discusses the effects of the Armenian president’s decision to abandon a planned Association Agreement with the EU in favor of joining the Russian-led Customs Union. The author argues that a...chevron_right

This report discusses youth engagement in EU politics and elections. The authors use findings from a survey on young people’s attitudes to democratic involvement in the EU to show that those under 30 ...chevron_right

In light of declining defense spending across Europe, the EU is devising measures to ensure that defense budgets are spent more efficiently and effectively. This commentary looks at one such measur...chevron_right

This commentary examines the growing geopolitical importance of Africa as trade and political partner for the European Union and explains how the EU intends to strengthen its ties with the African con...chevron_right

This commentary discusses how Russia's 2014 intervention in Crimea has benefited Russian President Vladimir Putin in terms of domestic politics, as well as how it has incurred economic costs due to th...chevron_right

This paper discusses China's efforts, under its President Xi Jinping, to improve economic and political relations with the European Union.chevron_right

This paper discusses the 2014 Afghan presidential elections as well as how the results of these could impact the number of international forces that remain in the country following the main withdrawal...chevron_right

This commentary addresses the presidential elections in Lebanon in May 2014 and considers the chances of former army officer Michel Aoun winning them. It also looks at the implications of his victory ...chevron_right

This paper examines how the International Criminal Court (ICC) cases against the Kenyan leaders named as being behind Kenya's 2007–2008 post-election violence have affected the debate on the court as ...chevron_right

This paper first looks at some of the strikingly similar views China and Russia have of the rest of the world, and also wonders whether Moscow's recently expressed hostility towards the West might flo...chevron_right

This paper examines the political turmoil surrounding the run up to the 2014 local elections in Turkey and suggests it will continue into the general election later in 2014 and the presidential electi...chevron_right

This brief examines the climate change-related cooperation being pursued by Non-Annex I countries -- i.e., those developing countries that are both signatories to the Kyoto Protocol and increasingly i...chevron_right

This paper explores the critical challenges faced by human rights activists, dissident journalists, opposition politicians, as well as religious and ethnic minorities fleeing the risk of persecution i...chevron_right

This paper examines the potential implications of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea on a potential secessionist movement in Kárpátalja, a region in western Ukraine in which some 162,000 ethnic Hungar...chevron_right