EU's Strategic Partnerships

ANNE SCHMIDT of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) reviews the debate on 'strategic partnerships' within the EU in the wake of the guiding principles drawn up for the strategic partnership format. In a working paper for SWP, "Strategic Partnerships – a contested policy concept", she reviews recent publications within the EU to recommends that the EU itself had to develop into a strategic actor and achieve  the stated goal of effective multilateralism as well as reconciling the EU’s broad normative concerns with its narrower interests.

The Long Road to ‘Chindia’

Bernt Berger, researcher at the Stiftung Wissenschaft and Politik (German Institute for International and Security Affairs) states that China and India are once again confronted with multiple issues that strain their path of gradual rapprochement. In an article for ISN Security Watch, “The Long Road to ‘Chindia’ “, claims that the rapid growth of bilateral trade between India and China had not eased the wary perceptions arising out of the unsolved territorial dispute, and that a common interest in global affairs such as climate change could help bring the Chinese and Indian strategic community closer