The Doha strike risks deepening regional scepticism of Western security partnerships in the Middle East. Europe needs to do ...

Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, has evidently done a lot of thinking over the summer. Europe has faced a sea of troubles, and so has she—wrestling with a succession of ...

In this moment of international turbulence, a France riven with domestic political strife may struggle to help address the many challenges assailing Europe—from an aggressive American administration ...

On August 8th, American president Donald Trump hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to announce a framework that could potentially end the two countries’ decades-long conflict. While many ...

New politics with Ivan Krastev Podcast Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes 1 August 2025 The re-election of President Donald Trump and the recent successes of right-wing parties across the world are ...

The EU needs to go beyond its AI Continent Action Plan and—like the US—develop an AI foreign policy. This is vital to allow ...

The SCO is often seen as the anti-NATO, but Putin will struggle to convince the other members – especially the Central Asian states – that his war is more important than Chinese investment ...

To effectively deter migration to Europe, the EU’s €1 billion aid package to Lebanon must require that Beirut address its deep political and economic troubles ...

Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, the Gulf states have collectively expressed strong criticism of Israel and its close ally, the United States, and called for an immediate ceasefire. Their stance ...

Power is now defined by control over flows of people, goods, money, and data, and via the connections they establish. Only states that see the new map of geopolitical power clearly will be able to ...

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has forced the European Union and its member states to reassess the importance of strengthening their energy sovereignty. However, EU member states have so far ...

Georgia could soon abandon its attempts to integrate with the West. After gaining independence in 1991, this small but strategically important state in the South Caucasus pushed to join Western ...