Europe in a Global Age
Europe is coming of age. The European Union has focussed its energies inwards for the past fifty years – developing the Common Market and harmonising laws and practices across the continent. Now, however, it faces ...
Publications
The Foreign Policy Centre’s publications are its in-depth research projects mixing analysis from FPC team members with the views of experts from around the world to address specific themes. The views expressed in all Foreign Policy Centre publications are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the Foreign Policy Centre.
Leeds Manifesto: How to Spend $100 billion for Africa
The EU has promised to double aid to Africa in the next five years to complement a new effort by the eight richest countries to promote the welfare, prosperity and security of ordinary Africans. In ...
Post-Conquest Civil Affairs: Comparing War’s End in Iraq and in Germany
Correlli Barnett, the distinguished military historian, contrasts the success of the Allied military government in Germany in 1945-6 with the relative failure of the Coalition in Iraq in 2003-4.
Foreign Minister of Europe
The creation of an EU Foreign Minister is one of the most innovative proposals of Europe’s proposed new constitution; yet there is still very little understanding of what the position woiuld entail and what challenges ...
The European Parliament in EU Foreign Policy
This Policy Brief reviews a recent plea from the European Parliament for a stronger voice in the constitutional arrangements for EU foreign and security policy. In the wake of the referendum results in France and ...
Voting for the Veto: India in a reformed UN
The case for India’s permanent seat in the Security Council is as compelling as it is simple. India is the world’s largest democracy, soon to be the world’s most populous country, and home to over ...
UN Security Council Reform: ‘From Here to Eternity?’
Following the Iraq war of 2003 Kofi Annan identified a stark choice for the UN: effectiveness or irrelevance. Dr Imber argues that the High Level Panel Report of 2004 and the follow-up In Larger Freedom ...
Promote Freedom or Protect Oppressors: The Choice at the UN Review Summit
The UN Charter commits its signatories to promoting basic principles of human rights and to saving people from the scourge of war. At a time of unprecedented examination of how to improve the working of ...
Britain’s Energy Future: Securing the ‘Home Front’
The UK Government has made the case for a rapid shift to renewable energy from a number of perspectives: national security, economic prosperity and protection of the global environment. Yet its targets in this area ...
A New Deal for Social Europe
At this decisive moment in the development of both the European Uion and the democratic left, European politics must not be allowed to become a competitive struggle between different national approaches. This pamphlet argues that ...