Brazil – Presidential Message: Commitment to sustainable development
Read on February 2, the 2012 Message was one of the largest ever sent. With 467 pages, it positively evaluated the government's achievements adopted so far for the various areas…
Articles, Briefings and Essays
The views expressed in the articles are those of each respective author and do not necessarily reflect the views or position of the Foreign Policy Centre.
FPC Briefing: How do we create a future for the two-state solution?
As part of the FPC’s new Israel and Palestine after the Arab Spring essay series Dr Toby Green and Prof Alan Johnson from BICOM (Alan is also a longstanding FPC…
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FPC Briefing: Israel, Palestine, and the “Urgency of Now”
As part of the FPC’s new Israel and Palestine after the Arab Spring essay series John Lyndon, Executive director of OneVoice Europe (a peace building NGO operating with communities in…
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FPC Briefing: Armenia’s Economy since Independence
Dr David Grigorian, Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund's Monetary and Capital Markets Department and a co-founder of Policy Forum Armenia, gives an in-depth analysis of Armenia’s economic development…
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FPC Briefing: Weathering the crazy seasons- Turkish foreign policy in the era of political climate change
FPC Research Associate Marc Herzog explores the development of Turkey’s Foreign Policy and its response to the Arab Spring, setting out the challenges faced and those still to come.
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FPC Briefing: Comrades in arms, or a marriage of convenience?
FPC Research Associate Alex Jackson gives us his analysis of the new alliance between billionaire businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili and Western-feted opposition leader Irakli Alasania, that has been shaking up Georgian…
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Should Britain be spearheading a campaign to reform the UN?
The UK has a number of on-going goals at the UN, none of which have much chance of an early resolution. For example, expanding the permanent representation on the Security…
Necas in a bind: The Eurozone fiscal compact and the Czech Republic
Petr Necas leads the Civic Democratic Party (Obcanska Demokratická Strana, or ODS), the country’s main centre-right party, and a member of the European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the European…
FPC Briefing: Russia Protests Parliamentary Elections- Winds of Change or Just a Lot of Hot Air?
Russia specialist Catherine Owen gives the FPC her take on unfolding political events in Russia, following the December 4th Duma elections. She examines the voting problems and the response of…
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John Bull’s Britain: Paddling towards European isolation
• Firstly the future of the City was not on the table in Brussels until David Cameron put it there. The decision to make financial regulation the issue on which…