Reforming the European Parliament
In this policy brief Nick Clegg and Michiel van Hulten combine a punchy analysis of the challenges facing the parliament with a detailed consideration what needs to be done to resolve them. It starts from ...
Publications
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Unbinding Africa: Making globalisation work for good governance
This powerful collection of essays by leading African thinkers and practitioners addresses the impact of Globalisation on the continent- from the explosion of NGO’s and their impact on civil society to the use of information ...
Communicating Europe
Democracy relies on communication between citizens and those in power. However, at the European level, too often the strategy is to focus on sending out pro-European messages, rather than presenting the EU as a political ...
Axis of Anarchy: Britain, America and the New World Order after Iraq
Will Iraq mark the emergence of a US dominated new world order, or a step on the road to international anarchy? Andrew Tyrie provides a thoughtful, searching and powerful essay on Western foreign policy and ...
Is Europe Reviving National Democracy?
The accountability of national government has changed in the past twenty years. People’s capacity to hold their governments to account has been complicated by the rise of new communications media, the rise of a ‘permanent ...
Iraq and World Order
What is the progressive case for intervention in Iraq? And what kind of world order should we be trying to build? John Lloyd provides a compelling argument against a conservative retreat to national sovereignty in ...
How to Join the Euro
In “How to join the Euro”, prominent pro-European and former Chairman of the Treasury Select Committee Giles Radice examines the practical hurdles facing British entry: the Treasury’s Five Economic tests, the criteria set out in ...
Public Diplomacy and the Middle East
Is it possible to better Britain’s standing in the Arab World at a time of conflict and terror? Commissioned by the British Council, Public Diplomacy and the Middle East examines the implications of the re-ordering ...
Who are the Euro Waverers?
Discussions of the euro battleground tend to focus on the 32% of the people who are implacably opposed and the 16% of people utterly in favour. These analyses miss out, though, on the most important ...
Rebooting Europe: Digital Deliberation and European Democracy
Without open and common political arena, confidence in European institutions will remain low, no matter how they are designed. This pamphlet examines how digital technologies such as the internet can help develop European political spaces. ...