FRIDE Europe and the reshaped global order

Understanding India

Gauri Khandekar — 2012-02-12T00:01:18+01:00

Emerging actors like India will increasingly shape the evolving global order according to their visions. Their core identities will impact on how international relations develop. Understanding India is crucial to create a better rapport with the West and bridge divides of the past century.

The G20 after Cannes: An identity crisis

Giovanni Grevi — 2012-02-12T00:01:18+01:00

At the Cannes summit, the G20 has performed as neither an effective crisis management committee nor a steering board for the global economy. The sovereign debt crisis challenges the role of the G20 and entails the danger of political default of some of its members. The risk is a world of introspective powers, unable to take the lead of collective action.

EU-Asia trade relations: getting through the crisis

Yeo Lay Hwee, Anne Pollet-Fort — 2012-02-12T00:01:18+01:00

Growing concerns over the economic outlook in East Asia threaten the upward trend in EU exports in the absence of policy efforts to conclude new trade accords. Trends in trade and investment suggest that both European and East Asian governments need to reassess their approaches to this partnership if damage is to be mitigated in the long term.

Security and Islam in Asia: lessons from China's Uyghur minority

Sébastien Peyrouse — 2012-02-12T00:01:18+01:00

The international community tends to forget the salience of the Islam issue in Asia. It is important for Asia’s security agenda to analyse the Chinese experience of managing the Uyghur issue, where Islam tends to be used as an ideology of decolonisation and resistance. A look at the Uyghur issue enables us to grasp more precisely the mechanisms of transformation of Asia’s Muslim societies. This may help the international community avoid the errors of interpretation in its counter-terrorism strategies that it made in the Middle-East, and put it in a better position to shape security scenarios across Asia.

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Why the EU needs to engage Russia on Asian security

Marlène Laruelle — 2012-02-12T00:01:18+01:00

Relations between the EU and Russia have improved since 2010. Unlike in the immediate neighbourhood, where Moscow perceives Europe’s presence as a threat to its interests, the Russia–Europe partnership could be productive in Asia. Engaging Russia alongside Europe in Asia offers several advantages for the EU´s visibility in Asia, for Russia’s integration into Asia and for Europe-Russia relations.

The G20 - Driving development behind closed doors

Nils-Sjard Schulz — 2012-02-12T00:01:18+01:00

In the midst of the Euro debt crisis, the G20 Summit in Cannes provided very little space for the Seoul Consensus on Development. Though, the applause would probably have been lukewarm even in the best scenario. The G20 development agenda has had so far limited added-value to ongoing global development processes. The run-up to the G20 Mexico Summit in June 2012 provides a number of short-term opportunities for world leaders to engage more effectively in shaping the global governance of development.