Philip Stephens, Financial Times
Germany has assumed the position of European leadership it once promised its neighbour
Seth Frantzman, 1945
Kristen Cordell, Council on Foreign Relations
The Trump administration sought to reframe foreign aid around competition with China and Russia, but shrinking budgets and inconsistent policies undermined the effort. How will President-Elect Joe Biden proceed?
William Nattrass, CapX
Brexit has broken the EU's equilibrium. Britain was seen as a vital counterweight to the calls for greater European integration by socially conservative countries...
Roger McDermott, Jamestown
On January 1, 2021, Russia's Northern Fleet was officially upgraded to the status of a Military District (MD), as part of a reorganization of the overall system of MDs. This marks a significant change to the national organizational structure of the MDs in Russia; and it marks the first major shift away from the concept of reducing and simplifying the number and functions of these, which, since 2010, have also had the status of Joint Strategic Commands (Obyedinennyye Strategicheskoye Komandovanie—OSK). Читать дальше...
Max Bergmann, Foreign Affairs
Take the Pressure Off of NATO States and Embrace the Union's Defense
Alex Vines, Chatham House
The year 2020 will of course be remembered for the COVID-19 pandemic, but many African countries have handled the public health effects of the first wave well compared with neighbouring continents, with some 55,000 related deaths and two million recovered out of a population of just over one billion.
Cas Mudde, Open Democracy
In the past few weeks a lot of publicity has been given to "RaHoWa", the fictional "racial holy war" proclaimed by white supremacists, mostly in songs and on internet forums such as Stormfront. This relatively obscure and murky world was brought into the media spotlight after the horrific shooting on 5 August 2012 in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin by Wade Michael Page. While he never gave an...
Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy
For 244 years, Americans have taken peaceful transitions of power for granted. But a "Republic of Laws" is a delicate flower, easily crushed by men.
