Connectivity and infrastructure: can the EU-Japan partnership make a difference?

Marie Söderberg. Expert Comment 3/2020 - 10/3/2020.

The EU-Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity and Quality Infrastructure is one of the first concrete steps within the Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA). The question is now how to move on from a broad political statement to the implementation stage.

The EU-Japan connectivity partnership: a sustainable initiative awaiting materialisation

Mario Esteban & Ugo Armanini. ARI12/2020 - 4/2/2020.

Implementing the Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity and Quality Infrastructure promising agenda is yet to be done and would require a significant and sustained financial commitment, as well as an efficient coordination between the EU and Japan, and beyond.

A geopolitical Commission? Beware the industrial-strategic gap in EU defence policy

Luis Simón. ARI 1/2020 - 10/1/2020.

To what extent will the European Commission’s efforts to promote a rationalisation of the European defence industry be based on a common political and strategic vision about the future of European defence?

The future of values in the EU Global Strategy 2020

Maryna Rabinovych & Zuzana Reptova. ARI 112/2019 - 19/11/2019.

The revised version of the EU Global Strategy is to be released by the next High Representative. What potential is there for introducing a new focus on fundamental values in order to boost the EU’s global role at a time of crisis for the international liberal order?

The self-determination of peoples vs human rights in liberal democracies: the case of Catalonia

Helena Torroja. ARI 99/2019 - 29/10/2019.

The abusive interpretations of the international norm of the self-determination of peoples by secessionist groups in liberal democracies entail a violation of the fundamental human rights of the entire population of the state in question. This paper discusses the norm’s abuse in reference to the people of Catalonia.

Syria strains Turkey’s ties to the West even after US withdrawal?

Nicholas Danforth. Expert Comment 27/2019 - 18/10/2019.

After seven decades, Turkey’s relationship with its nominal American and European NATO allies appears fundamentally broken. And there is still plenty of room for it to get worse. The current crisis in Syria is both a symptom and a driver of the breakdown.

The challenges facing Josep Borrell as the next EU foreign policy chief: an interview with Joseph Weiler

Argelia Queralt & Ignacio Molina. 8/10/2019.

Interview with Joseph H.H. Weiler on the role to be played by the new High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell.

Mody’s ‘Euro tragedy’: the counter story

Miguel Otero-Iglesias. WP 13/2018 - 16/9/2019.

This is a long and dissenting review, in nine acts, of Ashoka Mody’s book EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts, based on a political economy approach, generally absent in the book.

Strategic autonomy in a new era: a Cold-War risk assessment of China’s involvement in the EU’s 5G networks

Mario Esteban & Ugo Armanini. ARI 89/2019 - 6/8/2019.

This paper suggests studying the relations between the EU and China through a Cold War analysis framework.

A strategic look at the position of High Representative and Commission Vice-President

Ignacio Molina & Luis Simón. ARI 88/2019 - 5/8/2019.

What is the potential, and which are the shortcomings and possible ways of strengthening the post of High Representative for Foreign Affairs (and Vice-President of the European Commission) in order to improve the efficiency and standing of the EU as a global player?