If some UK red lines shift, it would be hard for the EU to remain obdurate

  Green Zone dir Paul Greengrass. On general release from 12th March Last year, British production company Working Title strayed beyond its natural comfort zone with dramas—notably...

The Uighur protests could strengthen the hand of China's hardliners—at a cost to us all

Divided on foreign and defence policy, the EU seems to be slipping backwards. It must learn to speak in one voice, or others will shape the new world order

Two books on the rise of Asia—one of them also a shrill attack on the west—agree on economics but disagree about the politics

It's in the interests of both the west and Russia to seek a grand bargain on the issues that divide them

As the European Union celebrates its 50th birthday, one Europe-watcher imagines its next 20 years

Nicolas Sarkozy has star appeal. But to judge from his political testimony, he lacks a coherent political philosophy and has few ideas about how to arrest France's decline

The Lebanon crisis has once again shown that foreign policy is made in Downing Street, not the foreign office. The recently retired head of the diplomatic service tries to explain why the FCO matters

Multilateralists are convinced that second-term Bush will embrace them