The world stands on a precipice, and the trends are not good. It was the United States whose economic wherewithal rescued Western civilisation in the Second World War and the Cold War. But whereas in 1945 the US…
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Neutrality: An Alternative to Ukraine’s Membership in NATO
Eugene Rumer is the director and senior associate for the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Headless Europe: As the crises mount, the continent’s leaders are AWOL
BRUSSELS – Forget Europe. Were Henry Kissinger still alive, he’d be asking who to call to reach Germany, Belgium or even Bulgaria.
Around half a dozen countries in the European Union presently lack functioning governments. And with Ursula…
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Will 2025 be a Repeat of 1938 for Europe?
A conference at London’s Chatham House in December kept returning to the idea that Europe was reliving a 1938 moment. In one sense, this could be a valid comparison. When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain flew to Munich in September of…
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Can American Abandonment Help Europe?
In February 2024, we published an article in Foreign Affairs urging Europe to prepare for a possible U.S. abandonment. We were right to ring the alarm bell. Donald Trump’s reelection in November rendered the prospect of the United States…
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Macron, UK’s Starmer, other European leaders swipe at Elon Musk
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is getting wide pushback in European capitals as he tries to extend his recent political success to the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Leaders in four European countries — France, Germany, Norway and the United…
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After loss of Tartus, Russia now has no submarines in the Mediterranean
The fall of the Assad regime in Syria in the final weeks of 2024 continues to reverberate through the Russian political and military system. Russia has lost the use of the naval base at Tartus, which is already affecting its ability to…
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Ukraine closure of Gazprom pipeline to Europe hurts Russia’s war effort but leaves Transnistrians in the cold
Kyiv has finally turned off Russia’s gas supply to Europe, ending a source of income that helped pay for Moscow’s war against Ukraine. The decades-old deal, which allowed the transit of natural gas produced by Russian energy giant…
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Critics of Washington’s Gradualism Are Misreading Putin’s Redlines
As U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security team prepares to depart, one of its chief foreign policy strategies is facing withering assault. A growing chorus of critics argues that Ukraine’s current dire situation is partly the result of…
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