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Adding Turbulence to the Turbulent Region: Cooperation Between Western Balkans, China, and Taiwan
The article is published as part of a joint issue “Green Synergies: Sustainability, Security, and Taiwan-Europe Collaboration” between CHOICE and the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Insight. The geopolitical and economic landscape of the Western Balkans has…
From Extraction to Innovation: The EU and Taiwan in the Critical Minerals Value Chain
The article is published as part of a joint issue “Green Synergies: Sustainability, Security, and Taiwan-Europe Collaboration” between CHOICE and the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Insight. As the European Union’s green transition gains momentum, ensuring the safe and sustainable…
China Holds a Kill Switch to European Power Grids
As the EU leans into its ambitious climate goals, solar energy has become the poster child of the energy transition. On the surface, it appears to be a success story in the global race…
From Awareness to Action: Research Security in Czech and European Academia
As global research collaboration expands, research security has emerged as a crucial aspect of protecting intellectual property, technological advancements, and academic integrity. The European Union has increasingly recognised research security as part of its…
EU’s War on US Big Tech is Handing China the Future
This article is part of a series of articles authored by young, aspiring China scholars under the Future CHOICE initiative. The EU has spent years cracking down on US tech giants. While Brussels sees this…
What Beijing’s Multipolar World Means for Ukraine and Europe
While recent shifts in the US position on Russia’s war against Ukraine have been met with considerable anxiety, leading to calls for rapid rearmament in Europe, Beijing has a radically different perspective. For China,…
Voice for CHOICE #53: Countering the “Axis of Evil” Alliance with Kateryna Musiienko
When discussing Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, we often focus on its broader, pan-European implications. In doing so, we sometimes overlook the profound local impact on Ukrainian communities, with individual stories only occasionally…
Interlinked Instability: Why CEE and the Indo-Pacific Must Stand Together
This article is based on the research paper “Interlinked Instability: Central and Eastern Europe and the Indo-Pacific in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape” by Pavel Havlíček, Ivana Karásková, and Danila Naumov, published by the Association…
Interlinked Instability: Central and Eastern Europe and the Indo-Pacific in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape
The “Interlinked Instability: Central and Eastern Europe and the Indo-Pacific in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape” conference, held in Prague on March 3–4, 2025, brought together policymakers, academics, and security experts to discuss shared challenges…
Davos 2025: European Competitiveness in a Changing World
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), held in Davos, Switzerland, during the week of January 20, reaffirmed the onset of a new era characterized by geostrategic rivalry and the fragmentation of…
AMO, ECFR and OSW: Central and Eastern Europe and the Future of the European China Debate
With generous support from Mercator Stiftung, we – AMO (Association for International Affairs) and its CHOICE network, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), and Poland’s Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) – are thrilled…