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Europe's Economic Crisis

Nobel Laureate Robert Solow and eminent economists explain how the euro crisis happened and what it will take to get Europe back on track here.

Transatlantic 2020: A Tale of Four Futures

What deep currents are likely to affect the U.S. and Europe over the next decade? Will they draw Europeans and Americans together or drive them apart? Dan Hamilton and Kurt Volker offer four futures that explore how today's trends could shape tomorrow's world. Click here for more.

Europe 2020: Competitive or Complacent?

The most comprehensive and up-to-date look at Europe's position in the competitive and highly connected G20 world. CTR Director Dan Hamilton "maps" the EU's global links in goods, money, energy, people, and ideas with 12 other world regions, assesses the EU's strenghts and weaknesses, and offers four scenarios for the EU's future. Watch an interview with Dan Hamilton here. Click here for more.

Transatlantic Energy Futures

How can Europe and the U.S. grapple with future energy questions? In this volume European and American authors explore the interrelated issues of energy security, climate change and new technologies.

Open Ukraine: Changing Course towards A European Future

Ukraine, one of Europe's biggest but poorest countries, stands at a critical crossroads between a more open or closed society. A stellar cast of authors explore Ukraine's challenges and recommend ways the country could change course to a more Open Ukraine.

Preventing Conflict, Managing Crisis

How can the U.S. and its European partners engage more effectively to prevent conflict and manage crises around the world? Practicioners and experts offer recommendations and apply them to specific case studies. In addition, we offer the Crisis Management Toolbox, which outlines key actors, principles and instruments guiding such efforts.

The Transatlantic Economy 2011

Europe's Financial Crisis

• Austerity and Arithmetic. CTR Distinguished Fellow and former Irish PM John Bruton looks at the European deal.
• It's Europe's Watershed Moment, argues CTR Director Dan Hamilton.
• Martin Neil Baily and Natalie McGarry look at how European countries have dealt with the crisis. For a powerpoint outline click here.
• Xavier Ragot and Hans-Helmut Kotz offer ways out.
• David Calleo places the crisis in the context of Europe's historical debates about the nature of its experiment with integration.
• The World Bank's John-Gabriel Goddard looks at what the crisis means for Europe's innovation and competitiveness.
• CTR Distinguished Fellow and former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton explains how the EU may need to change its treaties here.
• Euro Crisis: All Politics Are Local -- And Why Americans Should Care. CTR Director Daniel Hamilton comments here for the San Francisco Chronicle and here for NPR's Marketplace here.
• The European Debt Crisis: Political Economy Back with a Vengeance. CTR Distinguished Fellow Gordon Bajnai comments for CNBC here.
• The Eurozone Crisis is a Crisis of European Politics. CTR's John Bruton explains here, in a speech for the Google Leaders Forum.

Where is Russia Heading? 

CTR Fellow Donald Jensen comments for VOA's Crossfire on

• Yavlinskiy Tossed Off the Ballot
• Discussion with Sergey Markedonov (in Russian)
• Putin Considers His Options
• Moscow Hopes for Policy Continuity in North Korean Succesion
• The Kremlin’s push-back on democracy protesters
• A Kremlin Autumn?
• The surprising results of the Russian parliamentary elections
• The EU-Russia relationship
• Moscow and Tehran
• Medvedev and Ballistic Missile Defense

An Agenda for U.S.-EU Relations

• What Role for What Rule of Law in EU-U.S. Counterterrorism Cooperation? CTR Non-Resident Fellow Thorsten Wetzling explores the question here.
• All For One, One For All: Towards a Transatlantic Solidarity Pledge. CTR Director Daniel Hamilton and Mark Rhinard make the case here.
• The U.S.-EU Security and Justice Agenda in Action. CTR Director Daniel Hamilton joins other authors for a review here.
• CTR Visiting Research Associate Erik Brattberg co-authored a paper on The EU and U.S. as International Actors in Disaster Relief here.
• CTR and the EU Institute for Security Studies address cooperation on the broader Middle East; non-proliferation; economic challenges; and 'unfinished business' in wider Europe here.
• As America Pivots to Asia, Where's Europe? CTR Senior Fellow and Managing Director Kurt Volker comments in Handelsblatt and La Stampa here.
• CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments on the US-EU Summit for the Polish daily Rzeczpospolita here (in Polish).
• CTR Director Dan Hamilton comments for Deutsche Welle on the US-EU Summit and shifting perspectives on the US and Europe here.
• CTR Senior Fellow Daniel Serwer and Visiting Scholar Daniele Moro were among the experts (also: Italian Foreign Minister Terzi) interviewed for a three-parts series on Italo-American relations.

The Arab Awakening: How Should the West Respond?

• Tunisia: What do Tunisia’s elections mean for the future of the country, for the region, and for Western actors? Click here for analysis and commentary. Results and maps (district by district, and party by party) of the first free elections are available here.
• CTR Distinguished Fellow Jose Maria Aznar comments on CNBC here.
• Cairo in Turmoil: The Egyptian Revolution Part Two. CTR Senior Fellow Klaus Larres comments from Tahir Square here for CNBC.
• Libya: Daniel Serwer offers advice on Helping Libya Become a Stable, Independent Nation, in The Washington Post here;
• China's New Silk Road to the Mediterranean. CTR Fellow Christina Lin's latest publication, which examines China's concept of the New Silk Road has been selected by ETH Zurich as special feature.

Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe

• CTR Distinguished Fellow and former Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai comments on Republic, Reconciliation, Recovery: On Hungary on at the time of Twelfth Night. Click here for English, and here for Hungarian.
• The Western Balkans and the 2012 NATO Summit. Testimony by Daniel Serwer, January 18, 2012, here.
• Ukraine Could Do Much More to Renegotiate Gas Price with Russia. CTR Fellow Taras Kuzio wrote an article for the Foreign Notes blog here.
• Ukraine’s International Isolation Grows. CTR Fellow Taras Kuzio comments in the Eurasia Daily Monitor here.
• Kosovo's President. What does she represent? Kosovo President Ahtifeta Jahjaga spoke at CTR. For audio click here.
• Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow Tim Haughton wrote an article on the recent elections in Slovenia for the award-winning Moneky Cage blog.
• Open Ukraine: Changing Course towards a European Future. Read CTR's Recommendations here. Full book here.
• Can Ukraine Hold Free Elections in 2012? CTR Fellow Taras Kuzio comments here and Serhiy Kudelia here.
• Why Yulia Tymoshenko is Imprisoned. CTR's Taras Kuzio explains in the Eurasia Daily Monitor here.
• Ukraine, Corruption and the Rule of Law. Bohdan Vitvitsky comments.
• The Need for Economic Reform in Ukraine. Marcin Święcicki comments.
• The State of Affairs of the Balkans. CTR Senior Fellow and Managing Director Kurt Volker gave a testimony before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign.
• Crooks, Fools and Optimists. CTR's Daniel Serwer looks at prospects for the Bosnian economy here.
• Party Politics in Slovenia. Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow Tim Haughton published a joint-authored article on the partial cartellization of party politics in Slovenia in September 2011's issue of Communist and Post-Communist Studies. To read the full-text click here.

Towards a Common Strategy for the Arctic

• CTR’s Per Augustsson argues for more comprehensive international strategies for the Arctic and for Nordic leadership on the issue in an article published by the Atlantic Council as part of a project on Nordic-Baltic security in the 21st Century. To read the full-text click here.