Richard Gowan
Richard Gowan works on international security institutions at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University. He is the series coordinator of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations and an associate of the Foreign Policy Centre, London.
Worried 27 seeking reassurance
Agony Uncle Richard Gowan responds to Europe's concerns that America is just not that into their relationship
After Afghanistan
The Afghan experience will leave Europe’s armed forces drained and in search of a new purpose. As Richard Gowan writes, insufficient political will and empty state coffers will hamper rejuvenation
Viewpoint: Good intentions, bad outcomes
The EU’s failure to agree on a military mission in Congo comes at a time of deepening mistrust within Africa of Europeans’ intentions, argues Richard Gowan
A predictable crisis
The handling of the EU’s military mission in the central African state of Chad holds vital lessons for the bloc’s future operations in Africa, as Richard Gowan writes
From Beirut to Baghdad?
A year into the successful deployment of the – mostly European – peacekeeping force in Lebanon, there is growing speculation that EU countries may soon be playing a more active role elsewhere in the Middle East. Richard Gowan reports
Does the EU still want the Balkans?
From Kosovo to Bosnia, the EU is inextricably entwined in the future of the Balkans. But some in the region are growing more cynical about the prospect of membership, writes Richard Gowan
