ECFR Blog Posts

• Gaza reconstruction: The new Israeli strategy
  on Oct 14, 2014 in Dimi Reider, Middle East and North Africa, Two States Stress Test,
  This article has originally been published by Middle East Eye. The Israeli military has arrived at the conclusion that its near-total blockade of the Gaza Strip “has done more harm than good”,Read more…...
• Gaza reconstruction: The new Israeli strategy
  on Oct 14, 2014 in Dimi Reider, Middle East and North Africa, Two States Stress Test,
  This article has originally been published by Middle East Eye. The Israeli military has arrived at the conclusion that its near-total blockade of the Gaza Strip “has done more harm than good”,Read more…...
• Gaza reconstruction: The new Israeli strategy
  on Oct 14, 2014 in Dimi Reider, Middle East and North Africa, Two States Stress Test,
  This article has originally been published by Middle East Eye. The Israeli military has arrived at the conclusion that its near-total blockade of the Gaza Strip “has done more harm than good”,Read more…...
• Ukraine’s Fragile Cease-Fire
  on Oct 9, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
    Welcome to the first of four posts in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 26 October. The vote comes in the middle of a precarious cease-fire, with nothing less than the size, shape,Read more…...
• Ukraine’s fragile cease-fire
  on Oct 9, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
  Welcome to the first of four posts in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 26 October. The vote comes in the middle of a precarious cease-fire, with nothing less than the size, shape,Read more…...
• Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire
  on Oct 9, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
  Welcome to the first of four posts in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 26 October. The vote comes in the middle of a precarious cease-fire, with nothing less than the size, shape,Read more…...
• Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire
  on Oct 9, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
  Welcome to the first of four posts in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 26 October. The vote comes in the middle of a precarious cease-fire, with nothing less than the size, shape,Read more…...
• Ukraine’s fragile ceasefire
  on Oct 9, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
  Welcome to the first of four posts in the run-up to the Ukrainian elections on 26 October. The vote comes in the middle of a precarious cease-fire, with nothing less than the size, shape,Read more…...
• Messy elections in Bulgaria: An attempt for a read-out
  on Oct 8, 2014 in Vessela Tcherneva, Reinventing Europe, European elections,
  For the first time in Bulgaria’s post-'89 history, eight parties will enter the 240-seat parliament. The complicated choreography of the negotiations necessary for building the government is stillRead more…...
• Messy elections in Bulgaria: An attempt for a read-out
  on Oct 8, 2014 in Vessela Tcherneva, Reinventing Europe, European elections,
  For the first time in Bulgaria’s post-'89 history, eight parties will enter the 240-seat parliament. The complicated choreography of the negotiations necessary for building the government is stillRead more…...
• Messy elections in Bulgaria: An attempt for a read-out
  on Oct 8, 2014 in Vessela Tcherneva, Reinventing Europe, European elections,
  For the first time in Bulgaria’s post-'89 history, eight parties will enter the 240-seat parliament. The complicated choreography of the negotiations necessary for building the government is stillRead more…...
• How Hong Kong’s protests weaken Xi Jinping’s strongman image
  on Oct 3, 2014 in China & Asia,
  How will Xi Jinping get out of the quandary he has put himself in? That is the puzzle presently discussed among observers of Beijing politics, Chinese and non-Chinese alike. This is the burningRead more…...
• How Hong Kong’s protests weaken Xi Jinping’s strongman image
  on Oct 3, 2014 in China & Asia,
  How will Xi Jinping get out of the quandary he has put himself in? That is the puzzle presently discussed among observers of Beijing politics, Chinese and non-Chinese alike. This is the burningRead more…...
• How Hong Kong’s protests weaken Xi Jinping’s strongman image
  on Oct 3, 2014 in China & Asia,
  How will Xi Jinping get out of the quandary he has put himself in? That is the puzzle presently discussed among observers of Beijing politics, Chinese and non-Chinese alike. This is the burningRead more…...
• Andrew Wilson on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine
  on Oct 1, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
  Andrew Wilson's latest book Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West (Yale University Press) was published as an e-book on 1 October. The paperback version will be in the shops in advance ofRead more…...
• Why fighting the “war on terror” in Libya is a mistake
  on Oct 1, 2014 in Mattia Toaldo, Middle East and North Africa, Libya,
  Since the end of the Cold War, it has become common (and convenient) for Middle Eastern leaders to depict their opponents as “terrorists” as a way to gain support, military or otherwise, fromRead more…...
• Why fighting the “war on terror” in Libya is a mistake
  on Oct 1, 2014 in Mattia Toaldo, Middle East and North Africa, Libya,
  Since the end of the Cold War, it has become common (and convenient) for Middle Eastern leaders to depict their opponents as “terrorists” as a way to gain support, military or otherwise, fromRead more…...
• Andrew Wilson on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine
  on Oct 1, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
  Andrew Wilson's latest book Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West (Yale University Press) will be in the shops in advance of official publication on 14 October, and and e-book version will beRead more…...
• Why fighting the “war on terror” in Libya is a mistake
  on Oct 1, 2014 in Mattia Toaldo, Middle East and North Africa, Libya,
  Since the end of the Cold War, it has become common (and convenient) for Middle Eastern leaders to depict their opponents as “terrorists” as a way to gain support, military or otherwise, fromRead more…...
• Andrew Wilson on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine
  on Oct 1, 2014 in Andrew Wilson, Wider Europe, Ukraine Crisis,
  Andrew Wilson's latest book Ukraine Crisis: What it Means for the West (Yale University Press) will be in the shops in advance of official publication on 14 October, and and e-book version will beRead more…...