Robert Cooper, former Director General of Political and Military Affairs of the EU Council of Ministers, and a former chief foreign policy adviser to British Prime Minister Tony Blair, served most recently as Counselor in the European External Action Service.
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Robert Cooper
Commentaries by Robert Cooper
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Europe’s Eyes on the Prize
LONDON – Institutions are not lovable. They are rule-bound and dull; they have routines, committees, agendas, budgets – and rows about budge…
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The Morality of Amorality in Foreign Policy
When it comes to morality, diplomats are usually seen as cold and calculating. Machiavelli and Metternich are synonymous with the ruthless p…
Europe’s Eyes on the Prize
Zsolt Hermann: The Nobel Peace Prize does not have a very good history. Most of those receiving it either died very soon after getting the prize, or their project they received it for collapsed into dust. If the p…
Europe’s Eyes on the Prize
Shane Beck: Creating a institution and calling it "Europe" or the "European Union" doesn't make it necessarily so. The simple fact is that there are more differences between the members than there are commonaliti…