Publications

This brief discusses Pakistan's April 2015 decision not to support Saudi Arabia in its war in Yemen and what it demonstrates about Islamabad's relations with the Saudis and Iran. In general, the autho...chevron_right

This paper contends that Russia currently poses the greatest threat to the EU's foreign policy strategy. In response to the threat, Brussels needs to update its strategy, which should account for the ...chevron_right

This paper discusses the important role cities can play in achieving more effective governance in today's increasingly globalized world. In particular, the author contends that cities 1) are more awar...chevron_right

This paper explores how the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition government in Greece, which came to power following the country's January 2015 elections, could affect the country's foreign policy toward the Eastern...chevron_right

This paper identifies some of the most significant global challenges and trends today and how they are affecting Europe, the responses of the EU to these problems and how the Union can deal with these...chevron_right

This report features articles on the eurozone crisis that started in 2008, whether there were basic flaws in the design of European Monetary System (EMS) that contributed to the extent of the crisis, ...chevron_right

This report highlights three ways in which China is becoming increasingly active in international security affairs -- 1) the loosening of its noninterference policy towards other countries’ domestic a...chevron_right

This national security-centered report describes the recent expansion of US energy production and the prohibitions the country still has in place to prevent crude oil exports. In the last case, the re...chevron_right

This paper puts forward the idea of a Financial Secrecy Index (FSI), which would rank countries and jurisdictions according to the contribution they make to the lack of transparency in global financia...chevron_right

This paper discusses how governments, donors and public sector agencies attempt to create incentives for private sector actors to invest capital in tackling international development challenges. The a...chevron_right

This paper makes new estimates of global poverty and inequality in 2012 using both ‘old’, 2005 and ‘new’, 2011 purchasing power parity (PPP) price data in order to assess systematically what differe...chevron_right

This paper examines whether a monitoring system that uses mobile phones can be used to review the performance of teachers in adult education programs in developing countries. In particular, the author...chevron_right

This paper argues that the existing tools used to determine whether the poor are helped or hurt by taxes and cash transfer systems, have a significant problem. Indeed, the authors contend that such to...chevron_right

Is NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) merely a symbolic reaction to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine or does it have genuine military value? Today, the CSS’ Martin Zapfe looks back into the Alliance’s flank-defending past in order to gauge the VJTF’s present ‘possibilities and limitations’.chevron_right

Did the recent Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) meet all of its objectives? The CSS’ Tim Prior and Florian Roth don’t think so. The resulting Framework Agreement did set long-term DRR targets, but setting up formal mechanisms to track their progress proved to be a ‘bridge too far’. You can blame politics for that.chevron_right