Ben Noble, Associate Professor of Russian Politics at UCL SSEES, explores the level to which Russians oppose the war on Ukraine and the Russian state’s capacity to control the narrative. Continue reading Ukraine: Russian opposition to the invasion is giving Putin cause for alarm
Monserrat Madariaga Gómez De Cuenca draws attention to the often-overlooked significance of the location of the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) in the development of both national and international climate change law and governance. Monserrat is on the organising committee for the Climate Change and the Rule of Law Conference, a major conference hosted by the UCL Centre for Law and Environment, bringing together key thinkers to reflect on the connections and tensions between the rule of law and climate change. Continue reading COPs: Location, location, location
Next Generation EU, says Apostolos Thomadakis, represents a unique opportunity to lay the foundations of a deep and liquid European safe asset. Continue reading European safe asset: At last, the EU is becoming sovereign
Seán Hanley explains what’s at stake in the upcoming Czech parliamentary elections on 8-9 October. Continue reading Czech elections: despite the Pandora Papers Babiš will be hard to dislodge
The Lisbon Treaty introduced the most far-reaching reforms to EU foreign and security policy cooperation since the 1990s. In the following piece, Heidi Maurer (University of Bristol) and Nicholas Wright (UCL) explain the effects of the Lisbon Treaty on the EU’s Political and Security Committee, and how the committee is now battling to maintain its influence. This piece was originally written for the LSE’s European … Continue reading The EU’s Political and Security Committee: Still in the shadows but no longer governing?
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