Publications

What steps should the EU take to prevent France from curtailing its support for the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)? The CSS’ Lisa Watanabe thinks that Brussels must 1) improve its rapid deployment and force generation capabilities, and 2) sharpen its pooling and sharing requirements.chevron_right

This paper highlights the insights gleaned from a March 2015 meeting on the religiously-inspired challenges to social cohesion and peace in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Thailand. More specifically, it looks...chevron_right

This report discusses the potential for developing small and mid-size (SME) businesses in Moldova. The authors provide an economic overview of the county and analyze various best practices and lessons...chevron_right

This paper discusses why Greece has done so poorly with regard to its fiscal adjustments in comparison with all the other European Union countries since the global financial crisis in 2008 by comparin...chevron_right

This paper examines the main elements of the debates around the service sector dimension of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The main argument of the paper is that the servic...chevron_right

This paper looks for evidence of information warfare in Russia’s revised military doctrine that was published in December 2014. The author compares this new version with older ones since 2000 and argu...chevron_right

This paper assesses the developments of Turkish politics since the AKP party took over in 2002. The author argues that although there were rapid economic and democratic reforms in the first decade of ...chevron_right

This paper outlines the reasons why the EU should invest in energy-saving schemes for households in Ukraine as well as a program for such investment. The authors argue that such an investment - which ...chevron_right

This paper provides an overview of the reasons why the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted a policy of quantitative easing (QE) in March 2015, the challenges of using QE, and preliminary evidence of t...chevron_right

This paper provides an overview of a workshop on Mexican perspectives on sovereign debt restructuring. More specifically, it looks at 1) the major risks posed to debtor countries, particularly those i...chevron_right

This brief recommends six tactics that the chairs of lower-level UNFCCC negotiating groups can use to avoid deadlocks in current and future climate negotiations. They include 1) brokering compromises ...chevron_right

Twenty years on from the establishment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), this paper assesses how the agreement has worked and whether integration in the region can be enhanced. The a...chevron_right

This paper examines the reasons behind China’s decision to internationalize its currency, the renminbi (RMB), and the nature of the internationalization process Beijing has adopted. The author contend...chevron_right

This paper discusses how the process of China’s promotion of the international use of its currency, the renminbi (RMB), could unfold in the future and what steps it could involve. The author also anal...chevron_right

Scott Staring thinks that the late Leo Strauss’s political philosophy has a lot in common with Stephen Harper’s vision of foreign policy. It particularly coincides with the Canadian Prime Minister’s apparent distaste for the United Nations and other international organizations that limit national sovereignty.chevron_right