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A Template for Staged Accession to the EU (Michael Emerson, Milena Lazarević, Steven Blockmans, Strahinja Subotić, CEPS)

An idea is gaining ground that a system of accession to the EU in stages is now needed to revive and sustain the incentives...

Afghanistan: the next frontier for China’s private-security companies? (Meia Nouwens, IISS)

Could China’s private-security companies pave the way for it to take full advantage of the economic opportunities on offer in Afghanistan? Understanding how such...

India: A great power or a great presence? (Akshobh Giridharadas, ORF)

Michael Wood’s epic BBC documentary, Story of India, chronicles his journey across the Indian subcontinent, lauding India’s antiquity, its traditions and cultures from days of...

Impact of gender reservation in Indian Urban Local Bodies (Ramanath Jha, ORF)

At the national level, gender reservation in Parliament is yet an undone deal. The Women’s Reservation Bill, seeking to reserve 33 percent seats in the lower...

The 16+1 Initiative: Judged Too Quickly? (Samanya Sharma, ORF)

The 9th China-Central and Eastern European Countries Summit in February this year witnessed President Xi Jinping emphasise the growth of trade between China and the Central and...

The Quad Commits to Regulating Space (Rajeswari (Raji) Pillai Rajagopalan, ORF)

The first in-person summit of the leaders of the Quad group of countries, comprising of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, met in...

Oz’s choice—AUKUS and the break with Paris (Manoj Joshi, ORF)

Australia certainly mismanaged the emergence of the AUKUS, but it had few alternatives. Actually, the decision is  another “achievement” of Xi Jinping’s foreign policy....

Merkel’s Legacy, as Seen From Russia (Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Seen from Moscow, Angela Merkel’s long tenure was a period of relative, if not always palatable, predictability in German-Russian relations. The future of the...

Playing at Politics: Manufacturing Russia’s Parliamentary Parties (Tatiana Stanovaya, Carnegie Moscow Center)

For the in-system political parties, the presidential administration simply sets some general ground rules. For the new administrative parties, the presidential administration is not...

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