FPC Briefing: Terroracracy
FPC Senior Research Associate Tahirih Danesh and Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, Senior Fellow at European Foundation for Democracy have produced a hard hitting and challenging briefing that explores the way in which…
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FPC Briefing: Brown, Cameron or Clegg: who would secure British influence in Europe?
As the UK prepares for the second leaders debate of the election, focusing on foreign policy, a new FPC Briefing by Alexandra Pardal explores the UK Party Leaders positions and…
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FPC Briefing:The struggle to solve Europe’s economic woes: are Europe’s leaders up to the challenge?
This FPC briefing by our Senior Research Associate Alexandra Pardal explores some of the real challenges EU leaders face trying to kick start their economics after the global crisis and…
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Speech by Mustafa Sarigül, leader of Turkey’s Change Movement
The full text of a speech by Mustafa Sarigül, leader of Turkey’s Change Movement, to the Foreign Policy Centre’s A new politics for Turkey? Sarýgül’s challenge to the Turkish political…
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FPC Briefing: Global Shifts and China’s Response – Is Beijing taking a new approach to global issues?
FPC Research Associate Tim Summers has written a new FPC Briefing that explores China's response to the shifting dynamics of global power and the implications of this for the rest…
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FPC Briefing: From foe to friend – The volte-face in Turkish-Russian relations over the last decade
In the last decade, relations between Turkey and Russia have confidently surpassed their former cold-war hostility and undergone immense economic and geo-political improvement. FPC Research Associate Marc Herzog takes a…
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Joining the club
In the slightly warmer climes of the Balkans the two pillars of the former Yugoslavia, Serbia and Croatia, are making their own unsteady paths towards EU membership. Just before Christmas…
The Chilean Second Round Elections
Right-wing could break Concertación’s hegemony Marco Enríquez-Ormini, an independent candidate, gained third position with 20.12%, followed by Leftist Jorge Arrate of Juntos Podemos (Together we can) with 6.12%. The advantage…
2010 in Latin America
In Uruguay, the ex Tupamaro guerrilla, José Mujica, will take office as the new president. He will be responsible maintaining the economical and social achievements inaugurated by the Frente Amplio…
Where now for Afghan ‘democracy’?
It is true that efforts to elect an Afghan President democratically via elections that were fair and free from fraud and intimidation seem to have failed. The UN–backed Electoral Complaints…