The Globalist

Reflections on leading European nations in deep domestic trouble, including a Germany that apparently can only think of itself.

The world faces many challenges. More intense cooperation between the United States and the EU can help solve them.

Mark Zuckerberg’s business prospects have dimmed considerably. That is welcome news.

Sergio Mattarella stays on as president, Mario Draghi remains prime minister. For Italy and Europe, this is the least bad outcome of Italy’s presidential election.

All wars are hybrid, but war — and the notion of hybrid — have changed.

Why the strategic situation in Europe today, occasioned by the standoff at the Polish-Belarus border, resembles 1914 more than that of the Cold War.

Boris Johnson’s Brexit maneuver is backfiring on store shelves and crippling the country’s logistics. But the British PM is a master of cynical, but well-timed distractions.

The EU’s foreign policy approaches to Iran and Afghanistan demonstrate the challenges for the world’s middle powers.

The weaker Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at home politically, the longer the list of the Turkish President’s transgressions gets.

How the old failings of the Greek state adapted to the era of European integration.