Can closer cooperation between Europe and Asia break the great-power deadlock?

24 September 2026

How can small and medium-sized countries preserve their room for manoeuvre when great-power rivalry hampers international cooperation? At a policy seminar at IFN on 24 September, Wing Thye Woo, Professor at Liaoning University and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, presented a proposal for a broad partnership between Europe and countries in the Asia-Pacific region.