Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Brussels must reexamine its hands-off approach to the political impasse in Spain. Otherwise, Europe risks sleepwalking into yet another conflict.
As it intensifies, the Catalan crisis will have wider ramifications for EU politics. One crucial element revolves around the state of European democracy.
What trends can we decipher when it comes to modern protests? Is there a pattern to the grievances that helps to explain the current spike in citizen mobilisation?
Giving citizens a say on Europe’s future could help the EU address multiple problems—as long as governments are willing to accept ideas that fall outside their standard templates for reform.
Civic mobilization is an increasingly significant element of global politics—and an increasingly effective one.
The crisis in Ukraine has pushed the European Union to become a different kind of policy actor.
The European Union should be investing in foreign policy and humanitarian aid, not weapons.
The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014 has forced the EU to reevaluate its relationship with its eastern neighbors. Richard Youngs discusses his new book, Europe’s Eastern Crisis: The Geopolitics of Asymmetry, to discuss how reality is threatening the fundamental principles of the European order. (Runtime - 18:12)
The EU needs to map out a clear strategic approach to tackle restrictions on civil society around the world.
The state of democracy around the world is very troubled, but it is not uniformly dire, especially outside the West.
