AN INITIATIVE OF THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS connecting leading global foreign policy institutes
AN INITIATIVE OF THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS connecting leading global foreign policy institutes
A collection of CoC member institute articles, blogs, and reports on global governance and international cooperation.
Standards that establish the ethics of big data are needed to balance its benefits with privacy, health, security and sovereignty rights. Michel Girard makes the case for international standards for big data analytics.
This argues that the UK’s withdrawal from the EU will heighten fears among the ‘euro-outs’, the eight Member States that have not adopted the euro, that their influence over the Union’s decision-making processes will diminish in the future.
EAI experts assess Kim Jong Un’s 2019 New Year’s address and argue that given the United States and North Korea disagree on what constitutes complete denuclearization, the second Trump-Kim summit will not resolve fundamental problems.
This piece argues that if the United States were to withdraw from the INF Treaty, another cornerstone of the European security order and the global nuclear order would collapse, and unpredictability and destabilization would increase
Despite some concerns, the revamped CPTPP is a force for good in international trade. This argues that next steps should be to expand membership and establish a small secretariat.
Three years after the JCPOA was implemented in mid-January 2016, this discusses two major developments: President Trump’s decision to leave the JCPOA and efforts exerted by Iran to ensure that the deal remains intact.
This argues that a major effort will now be required to restore credibility to the EU’s enlargement agenda and ensure a genuine re-engagement with the Western Balkans.
A European Security Council could make the European Union better prepared for making decisions about international politics and thus better able to act. However, this idea can only take shape if the German government can demonstrate its added value.
This argues that in addition to lives saved, the economic value of the health gains from reducing air pollution are approximately twice the cost of the policies required, so immediate global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is needed.
After six years, a combination of factors suggests that Israel’s “campaign between wars” in the northern arena may have realized its potential, confronts an “overload” of risks, and is close to exhausting its ability to record achievements without signifi