Chatham House Briefing Papers

Publisher(s): Chatham House, London, UK
Format: PDF
Frequency of publication: Occasional
URL: www.chathamhouse.org.uk
Description: Chatham House works to stimulate debate and research on key issues in the international arena. Its regional research programs explore the politics, economics and security of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe, with a separate program covering Russia and Eurasia. Other research programs focus on international law, international economics, international security, energy, the environment and development. Chatham House briefing papers are released by each research program on an occasional basis in response to significant events or to provide background information on particular areas of interest.
General note: © The Royal Institute of International Affairs

Publications:

• Building on the Inheritance
• The Mortgaging of Ukraine’s Independence
• Investing for an Uncertain Future
• Illegal Logging and Related Trade
• Playing to its Strengths: Rethinking the UK’s Role in a Changing World
• Aiming for New Vigour
• Universal Jurisdiction for International Crimes
• Jerusalem: The Cost of Failure
• Beyond the Impasse: International Intervention and the Israeli–Palestinian Peace Process
• Controlling Illegal Logging
• Combating Illegal Fishing in the EU: Interaction With WTO Rules
• Climate Policy After Copenhagen
• Economic Drivers of Conflict and Cooperation in the Horn of Africa
• Unlocking Finance for Clean Energy
• Europe's Energy Security After Copenhagen
• Turkey, Russia and the Caucasus
• Consumer Labelling of Nanomaterials in the EU and US
• Keeping Illegal Fish and Timber off the Market
• Regulating Nanomaterials: A Transatlantic Agenda
• Chinese Direct Investment in Europe
• Combating Illegal Logging
• Money and Security
• From London to L'Aquila
• The Vulnerability of Energy Infrastructure to Environmental Change
• Palestinian Refugees
• North Africa: The Hidden Risks to Regional Stability
• Options for a Democratic Taiwan
• Africa’s New Human Rights Court
• Oil, Gas and International Insecurity: Tackling a Self-fuelling Fire
• Trade and the Global Economic Crisis
• The Palestinian Refugee Issue
• A Fair Deal on Seabed Wealth
• Security Cooperation between Western States and Russia over Central Asia/Afghanistan
• Yemen: Fear of Failure
• Piracy in Somalia
• Synchronized Dive into Recession
• Angola's Elections: A Democratic Oil Giant?
• After the Doha Débâcle
• Sierra Leone a Year after Elections
• Is the Euro Ready for ‘Prime Time’?
• The Past as Prelude? Negotiating the Palestinian Refugee Issue
• Israeli Perspectives on the Palestinian Refugee Issue
• EU Trade Policy: Approaching a Crossroads
• Thinking About the Future of Food
• The International Climate Change Agenda
• Prospects for an EU-Gulf Cooperation Council Free Trade Area
• An EU-Korea Free Trade Area
• European Multinationals
• UK Food Supply: Storm Clouds on the Horizon?
• Forest Governance and Reduced Emissions From Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
• Exploiting Europe’s Strong Potential
• Forest Governance and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
• The Kurdish Policy Imperative
• Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan
• EU-ASEAN: The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship?
• Spice Route to Europe? Prospects for an India-EU Free Trade Area
• Hong Kong Ten Years On: An Assessment of the Special Administrative Region
• Islam, Politics and Security in the UK
• Patenting Genetic Resources: Striving for the Right Balance
• Capital Flows and Emerging Market Economies
• Unlocking the Eurozone's Potential
• The Special Tribunal for Lebanon: The UN on Trial?
• Open for Business: Syria's Quest for a Political Deal
• Illegal Logging
• Controlling Illegal Logging
• Climate Change: The Leadership Challenge
• How Climate Change Is Pushing the Boundaries of Security and Foreign Policy
• Linking Trade, Investment and Climate Change Policies
• Incentives, Risk and Decision-Making in Mitigating Climate Change
• Transforming our Energy Within a Generation
• Accepting Realities in Iraq
• India and West Africa: A Burgeoning Relationship
• The End of the "Post-Soviet Space"
• Oil for Asia
• Managing International Fisheries: Improving Fisheries Governance by Strengthening Regional Fisheries Management Organizations
• The Nigerian 2007 Election: A Guide for Journalists and Commentators
• French Foreign Policy in Africa: Between Pré Carré and Multilateralism
• Ethiopia and Eritrea: Allergic to Persuasion
• Infrastructure and Indian Development: Reform First, Invest Later
• Blair's Foreign Policy and its Possible Successor(s)
• Post-Conflict Security-Building
• Fit for EMU? Comparing the New Member States with Southern Europe
• Japan and China: Reaching Reconciliation or Stuck in the Past?
• The "War on Terror": Do the Rules Need Changing?
• Public-Private Partnerships in State-Building and Recovery from Conflict
• Al-Qaida Five Years On
• Climate Change Policy Uncertainty and the Electricity Industry: Implications and Unintended Consequences
• Illegal Logging
• A New Fiscal Framework for GCC Countries ahead of Monetary Union
• Two Cheers for the UK's EU Presidency
• A new fiscal framework for GCC countries ahead of monetary union
• The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and Domestic Implementation
• 'Boffins' and 'Buffoons': Different Strains of Thought in Russia's Strategic Thinking
• The EU Needs a Strong US Economy, Not Reform
• Pakistan's Foreign Policy under Musharraf
• Human Security and Resilience
• Thinking Longer, Working Harder: How Long-Dated Bonds Can Help Europe's Ageing Population
• From Washington, DC: Goodbye Greenspan, Banzai Ben
• Investment in Middle East Oil: Who Needs Whom?
• The Syrian Kurds: A People Discovered
• The Unnecessary European Social Model
• The World Trade Organization and Sustainable Development
• Croatian Opinion and the EU's Copenhagen Criteria
• Two Cheers for the UK's EU Presidency
• The Importance of Politics to Nuclear New Build
• Cyprus: Entering Another Stalemate?
• OPEC and Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities
• The Trial of Saddam Hussein
• The Globalization of Security
• Partnership Is No Privilege: The Alternative to EU Membership is No Turkish Delight
• Environmental Civil Society and Governance in China
• The Caspian Sea: Legal Status and Regime Problems
• Crisis in the Niger Delta
• Foreign Direct Investment in Africa
• Security, Terrorism and the UK
• Petroleum, Poverty and Security
• Blair's G8 Gamble: Prospects for Gleneagles
• Pragmatism Prevails: Barroso's European Commission
• State Immunity: The United Nations Convention and its Effect
• Friction or Fiction? The Gas Factor in Russian-Belarusian Relations
• Implications of External Imbalances for Monetary Policy-Makers
• Torture: An Overview of the Law
• The Challenges for India's Education System
• The Chinese Economy: Risky Reporting
• Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Energy Sector Investments
• Generating Profits? Can Liberalized Markets Fit the Electricity Bill?
• British Attitudes to Africa
• Food Security in India
• The Growth of Civil Society in China
• Referendums on the EU Constitutional Treaty
• European Economic Governance
• Partnerships for Technology Transfer
• Following up the World Summit on Sustainable Development Commitments on Corporate Social Responsibility
• Temporary Immigration: A Viable Policy for Developed Countries
• Pipeline Gas Introduction to the Korean Peninsula
• Globalization and Future Architectures: Mapping the Global Future 2020 Project
• Advancing Economic Growth: Investing in Health
• Senegal: Mouvement des Forces Démocratiques de la Casamance (MFDC)
• Russia and Compliance under Kyoto: An Institutional Approach
• Implementing the Biosafety Protocol: Key Challenges
• Chatham House and NISCC Joint Workshop on Critical Global Information Infrastructure
• Petroleum Reserves in Question
• Oil and Gas Reserves: Communication with the Financial Sector
• Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Iraq in Transition: Vortex or Catalyst?
• Huijin: A SASAC for China's Financial Sector?
• The CITES Treaty and Compliance: Progress or Jeopardy?
• Reforming Russian Bankruptcy Law
• Putin and the 'Oligarchs': A Two-Sided Commitment Problem
• How the 2004 Lok Sabha Election Was Lost
• Deus ex M.A. China: Are Mainland Chinese Students Saving Britain's Universities?
• Networking Change
• China's Quest for Market Economy Status
• Russian Energy and CO2 Emission Prospects
• Double or Quits? The Global Future of Civil Nuclear Energy
• Russia and the Kyoto Protocol: Political Challenges
• UK Bilateral Investment Treaty Programme and Sustainable Development
• The Implications of China's Gas Expansion towards Natural Gas Market in Asia
• Trade and Environment in the WTO: After Cancùn
• China's Stock Market: Out of the Valley in 2004?
• The EC's Negotiating Position with Respect to the Russian Energy Sector in the Context of Russia's WTO Accession Bid
• Two-thirds Privatisation: Is it Working?
• 'Two-thirds Privatisation': How China´s Listed Companies Are - Finally - Privatising
• The Conflict Surrounding the Russian Oil Company, Yukos
• EU Emissions Trading - Challenges and Implications of National Implementation
• Will Privatisation in China Work?
• Privatisation in the Former Soviet Bloc: Any Lessons for China?
• Will Privatisation in China Work?
• China's Informal Stock Market: How it Developed, How it Works and How it Might Grow
• Investment, Doha and the WTO
• Generating Change
• The Maltese Parliamentary Elections of April 2003
• The Millennium Goals: At a Decisive Stage?
• Multilateral Enviromental Agreements and the WTO
• The next Trade War? GM products, the Cartagena Protocol and the WTO
• The Belgian Federal Elections of 18 May 2003
• Investment Without Risk: An Investigation Into IPO Underpricing in China
• Legitimacy Risks and Peace-Building Opportunities: Scoping the Issues for Businesses in Post-War Iraq
• Old Stocks, New Owners: Two Cases of Ownership Change in China's Stock Market
• National and International Policies to Control Illegal Forest Activities
• Made in Japan: Converging Trends in Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Governance
• Better than a Casino: Some Good News from the Frontline of China's Capital Market Reforms
• Why China's Economy Can Sustain High Performance: An Analysis of its Sources of Growth
• Kibaki's Triumph: The Kenyan General Election of December 2002
• A Strategic Assessment of the Kyoto-Marrakech System
• Eggs in a Basket: Evaluating the Performance of China's Investment Funds
• Social Inequalities and Wage, Housing and Pension Reforms in Urban China
• Russian Monopoly Reform
• The Changing Geopolitics of Energy - Remarks Made at MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
• Europe and the Finnish Parliamentary Election of March 2003
• The Legal Implications of EU Enlargement
• Europe and the Estonian Parliamentary Elections of 2 March 2003
• China's Economic Growth with WTO Accession: Is it Sustainable?
• Belgian Federalism - Basic Institutional Features and Potential as a Model for the European Union
• What Can Federalism Teach us about the European Union? - The German Experience
• Visions on the Reform of Competences in the European Convention
• Iraq's Oil Tomorrow
• Europe and the Dutch Parliamentary Elections of January 2003
• Elections in Africa: The Past Ten Years
• WTO Implications of an International Timber Licensing Scheme
• Switzerland: Historical Dynamics and Contemporary Realities
• Drafting the Securities Law - The Role of the National People's Congress in Creating China's New Market Economy
• Developing an Effective Follow-up Process for WSSD Partnerships
• Integrating European Business
• Doves Vote Hawk: The January 2003 Elections in Israel
• China's Stock Market: Eight Myths and Some Reasons to Be Optimistic
• Iraq: The Regional Fallout
• Liberia: Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD)
• Al-Qaeda: the Misunderstood Wahhabi Connection and the Ideology of Violence
• Post-Election Bulletin: Seychelles 2002
• Electricity Legislation Passes second Reading
• Reforming China's Economy: A Rough Guide
• Implementing Europe's Emissions Trading Market
• Does Capital Market Reform Boost Savings? Evidence from the UK Pension Reforms
• Towards an Improved Governance Agenda for the Extractive Sector
• Integrating Poverty Reduction in IMF-World Bank Models
• Overview: The Electric Challenge
• Living With the Megapower: Implications of the War of Terrorism
• Europe and the Slovak Parliamentary Elections of September 2002
• The Future of Oil in Iraq: Scenarios and Implications
• The Caribbean Experience with Rum - Implications for other Industries Involved in Trade Negotiations
• The Political Context of EU Accession in Hungary
• The Political Context of EU Accession in Poland
• The Political Context of EU Accession in the Czech Republic
• The Mercosur Dispute Resolution System
• Regulation in the European Union
• Global Environmental Institutions - Perspectives on Reform
• Security of European Natural Gas Supplies
• Renewing Energy Security
• Oil and Governance: Focus on West Africa
• The External Dimension of the Mercosur: Prospects for North-South Integration with the European Union
• International Environmental Crime: The Nature and Control of Environmental Black Markets
• Corporate Accountability in Search of a Treaty? Some Insights from Foreign Direct Liability
• Reconfiguring Subregionalism: The Political Economy of Hemispheric Regionalism in the Americas
• A New Interpretation of the Kyoto Protocol
• Towards Global Corporate Social Responsibility
• The Convention on the Future of Europe
• The European Roma Question
• Third Time Lucky? Geraschenko Resigns (Again)
• Controlling the International Trade in Illegally Logged Timber and Wood Products
• EU Immigration and Asylum Policy: From Tampere to Laeken and Beyond
• Political Co-operation in Mercosur
• Climate Change in Focus: The IPCC Third Assessment Report
• Climate Change in Focus: The IPCC Third Assessment Report
• Russian Economic Growth and Economic Policy: Part 1
• Putin's Gamble
• Mercosur: A Critical Overview
• 'Oligarch Management' in the State Sector
• The German Bundestag Election of September 2002
• Europe and the Swedish Parliamentary Elections of September 2002
• Europe and the Czech Parliamentary Elections of June 2002
• Europe and the French Presidential and Legislative Elections of April/May and June 2002
• Europe and the Dutch Parliamentary Elections of May 2002
• Europe and the Irish General Election of May 2002
• Europe and the Hungarian Parliamentary Elections of April 2002
• Tax Policy and the Tax System in Russia: The Case of the Banking Sector
• Russian Economic Growth and Economic Policy: Part 2
• Russian Companies Law Revised
• Corporate Citizenship: Exploring the New Responsibilities
• UK Policy Towards the US and the EU