“Viruses know no borders and they don’t care about your ethnicity, the colour of your skin or how much money you have in the bank.” The words of WHO official Dr Mike Ryan about Coronavirus (COVID-19) would seem to many of us common sense. What appears ‘common sense’ does not, however, always manifest in the […]
Tag Archive | European Union
COVID-19 has Revealed a World of Strong States and Global Enmity
Posted on April 20, 2020.
Posted in Australia, China, Europe, European Union, Germany, Refugees, Security Issues, UN, US, World
Dissecting the Diplomatic Feud Between France and Italy
Posted on February 16, 2019.
Strong criticism of French president Emmanuel Macron by Italian leaders has created a diplomatic firestorm between the long-time European allies. The current tensions between the two neighbours is fresh evidence of how two competing political visions of Europe are clashing ahead of EU parliamentary elections. “I hope the French will be able to free themselves […]
Posted in Europe, European Union, France, World
Tito and Yugonostalgia: Name Change Reveals Political Fault Lines in Croatia
Posted on January 1, 2018.
The decision of municipal authorities in the Croatian cities of Zagreb and Karlovac to remove former Yugoslav president Tito’s name from streets and squares has rekindled the debate over the ruler’s legacy. Here, Tony Fabijančić assesses attitudes for and against Tito, nostalgia for the former Yugoslavia (“Yugonostalgia”), and the ongoing political division between left and […]
Posted in Europe, European Union, World
The Economics of Catalan Secession from Spain
Posted on August 4, 2017.
Image by David Tubau (Energético) One year on from the Brexit vote, Europe’s economy faces yet another monumental challenge in the shape of the Catalan independence referendum. There are doubts as to whether the referendum will go ahead; a referendum on independence was held in 2014, but after the Spanish constitutional court anhttp:\/\/global-politics.co.uked it, the […]
Posted in Economic Security, Economics, European Union, Global Economy, World
Solidarity or Self-interest? European Integration and the German Question
Posted on August 23, 2015.
This article was originally published by The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in Carnegie Ethics Online on 17 August 2015. In Klaus Harpprecht’s 1995 biography of Thomas Mann, he highlights a statement which Mann wrote in 1947, which, as Harpprecht puts it, “one reads with a distinct shiver half a century later”: In […]
Posted in Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World
Green Politics in the Age of Populism
Posted on May 19, 2017.
Who will provide strong and stable leadership on the environment? Following May’s shock election announcement there has only been one issue on the agenda for both the media and political parties themselves: Brexit. One worrying effect of our preoccupation with constitutional issues is that green politics have been ignored. Despite Green Party gains in the […]
Posted in Environmental Security, World
America’s Allies in Eurasia Face a Common Foe in Russia
Posted on May 12, 2017.
By Eugen Iladi It’s no secret that Russia is using military means and disinformation to try to reassemble its Soviet Union footprint. Ukraine has drawn the most headlines in this effort. But the Kremlin has long been working its land-grab plan in Georgia, Moldova and Azerbaijan. Russia’s economic failure and social challenges in the 21st […]
Posted in Conflict, Europe, Political Security, Russia, Ukraine Conflict, US, World
President Trump’s Failure to Connect the Dots
Posted on April 9, 2017.
Most children learn early on the art of connecting the dots. Draw a line from one dot to another in a logical pattern and an image begins to emerge. The art of foreign policy has similar characteristics. Policy makers try to connect the dots, attempting to imagine the ways their decision will effect the larger […]
The Renaissance of Right-Wing Populism: Learning from the Case of Austria
Posted on May 31, 2016.
Many parts of Europe currently face a renaissance of the xenophobic political right. Thus, it is certainly no coincidence that in a recent issue of the “New Statesman” Rowan Williams reminds us that “the toxic brew of paranoia and populism that brought Hitler to power” may not be so far away from liberal democracies as […]
Posted in Europe, European Union, Germany, World
Britain’s EU Referendum Demonstrates the Volatility of Populist Politics. Is the US Listening?
Posted on June 19, 2016.
In trying to puzzle through the populism animating the right and left after the 2008 global financial crisis and the 2015 European migrant crisis, we can draw a worrying parallel between the UK referenda and social and economic populism in the US. As in the US presidential race, the UK’s Remain/Leave debate is complex: it […]
The ‘Pure Wind’ of the Leave Campaign Shows Contempt for UK Voters
Posted on June 11, 2016.
George Orwell famously wrote that “Political language … is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” Having lived through the Scottish independence referendum, it is hard to believe that less than two years on from that experience the people of the UK are […]
Posted in Europe, European Union, UK News, World
Poland: A Foreign Policy in Flux
Posted on September 7, 2015.
Just three weeks after entering office, Polish President Andrzej Duda’s first official visit to Berlin on August 28 allayed concerns in some quarters that his presidency would resurrect the combative foreign policy his right-wing party, Law and Justice, practiced the last time it was in power from 2005 to 2007. Back then, prickly ties with […]
Posted in Conflict, Economic Security, Europe, Germany, Political Security, Russia, Security Issues, Ukraine Conflict, World
Fear or Facts: the Case for ISDS in Modern Trade Agreements
Posted on June 7, 2015.
At the stakeholder briefing during the ninth round of negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), U.S. chief negotiator Dan Mullaney quipped that everyone was discussing Investor to State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) systems except the negotiators. The latter have not discussed the issue since January 2014, when the European Commission launched a public consultation, […]
Posted in Asia, China, Economics, Europe, Global Economy, US, World
Save TTIP or Risk the Alliance
Posted on March 25, 2015.
The European Union (EU) and the United States (U.S.) have been negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) since 2013. Intended to revive the transatlantic economies by eliminating tariffs and accepting various degrees of regulatory convergence or mutual recognition across a wide range of sectors, and solidify EU-U.S. relations, it now appears to be […]
Posted in Economic Security, Economics, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, Political Security, Security Issues, US, World
Why Israel Is Losing the Public Relations War
Posted on March 28, 2015.
Almost everybody thinks badly of Israel. That’s what a poll published by the BBC World Service in 2014 shows. More precisely, Israel ranks as the fourth most negatively viewed nation, right after North Korea, Pakistan and Iran. What explains the differences between European and American views on Israel, and how does such an overall negative […]
Posted in Conflict, Economics, Israel, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Middle East, Political Security, Security Issues, World
ISIS, Islam and Credulity: More Irreverence Needed in the Fight Against Extremism
Posted on March 15, 2015.
This week, King Abdullah of Jordan appealed to European parliamentarians to help root out both terrorism and ‘Islamophobia’. Setting aside this interesting conflation, the wholesale failure of Arab and majority Muslim countries to embody either mutual respect or inclusivity towards many of their ethno-religious minorities bespeaks of an imbalance in critical attention to how those […]
Posted in Europe, Iraq, Islam, Middle East, Political Security, Religion, Security Issues, Syria, Terrorism, World
Russia and the West: How the Empathy Was Lost
Posted on February 20, 2015.
Last year I criticized some of the hawk-like voices, including that of David Brooks of the NYT, which were calling for Barack Obama to increase the fear factor in dealing with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. I should point out that I am decidedly not a fan of Putin, whose actions in Crimea and Ukraine have been reprehensible. However, we need […]
Posted in Conflict, Europe, Russia, Security Issues, Ukraine Conflict, Uncategorized, US, World
Merkel’s Warning to the Germans a Lesson for UK Politicians
Posted on January 2, 2015.
I haven’t been wildly impressed by how Angela Merkel has handled the eurozone crisis, but this speech to the German people shows why (for my money) she’s easily the most impressive political leader in Europe, if not the world, right now. At a time when too many UK politicians have been pandering to extreme tendencies in a craven attempt […]
Posted in Economic Security, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, Refugees, World
We need a Parliament and Constitution for the Whole Country, not SNP and UKIP Delusion
Posted on June 20, 2014.
This piece was originally published in Huffington Post on 20 February 2014 Apart from 2014 being the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, the year Glasgow hosts the Commonwealth Games, and that Scotland plays host to the Ryder Cup, the vote on Scottish independence is also being held 100 years after the outbreak of […]
Posted in Europe, Scottish Independence, World
Independence: the Nationalist Lottery
Posted on September 16, 2014.
I’m voting ‘No’ this Thursday. I’ve been leaning ‘Yes’ for a while, but as the referendum approaches I’ve found myself changing my mind. There are real potential benefits to a ‘Yes’ vote: I believe that a parliament based on proportional representation will give us better (though more boring) governance over the long term and more accurately […]
Posted in Europe, Scottish Independence, World
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