Why Did AUKUS Happen? Because the World Changed.
What is AUKUS and what is it not? What does it mean for Europe, NATO and the Indo-Pacific?
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Dialogue with Russia. Russia Needs to Reset Relations with the West.
Moscow’s resurgent foreign policy and the undemocratic rule of President Vladimir Putin ended the relatively friendly relations that had been possible between Russia and the West in the 1990s. In the seven years since Russia annexed Crimea and started a war of attrition against Ukraine, the security situation in the transatlantic region has continuously deteriorated. The Kremlin has demonstrated hostility towards the West, crises and security issues have continued to multiply instead of being resolved, and the risk of outright conflict has come close to Cold War peaks. There is an obvious and urgent need to lower tensions, but Moscow prefers to demonstrate its readiness to escalate.
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BREXIT: Things as they stand
Following the developments in London over the past two weeks has been a challenge, and it is far from over.
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An Ambitious EU-UK Partnership, Based on an Orderly Withdrawal
The European Union is interested in a future partnership with the United Kingdom, European Commission’s Chief Negotiator Michel Barnier writes in the current issue of our magazine Diplomaatia.
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Poland, the European Union and the Brexit
On 5-6 December 2017, Ambassador (ret) Pauli Järvenpää, Senior Research Fellow at the ICDS, attended a conference arranged by the Polish Ministry of National Defence at the Military Studies University in Warsaw, Poland.
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Brexit – Eight Months since Triggering Article 50, Opportunities and Challenges
On 30 November, ICDS was pleased to host Anna Clunes, Director for Institutions and Member States at the UK’s Department for Exiting the EU, for a seminar to discuss the state of play of the Brexit negotiations.
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Scotch on the Rocks – Life After Brexit?
On 9-11 November 2017, Dr. Pauli Järvenpää, Senior Research Fellow at the ICDS, participated and contributed as a panelist to a seminar held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the theme of “Scotch on the Rocks – Life after Brexit?”.
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UK Proposes an Unprecedented Relationship with the EU in Defence
This week, the UK released a future partnership paper on foreign policy, defence and development, one of a series of papers intended to explore key issues setting out aspects of the government’s vision for a future “deep and special” partnership between the UK and the EU after Brexit.
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ICDS Video Chat: The Possible Impact of the British Elections on the Brexit Negotiations
In this ICDS Video Chat, Erkki Bahovski asks ICDS research fellow Tony Lawrence about the possible impact of the British elections on the Brexit negotiations.
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Theresa May’s Cynical Election Gambit
Theresa May’s announcement on Tuesday that she will seek a snap general election in June came a shock, particularly since she had regularly insisted that no such election would be necessary and that the current parliament would continue, as planned, until the spring of 2020. In her announcement, she claimed that the UK now needed the “certainty, stability and strong leadership” that her Government could provide, and that while the country was coming together, opposition in Parliament would obstruct her Government’s delivery of the Brexit referendum result.
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