The European Union’s potential for superpower status has been greatly exaggerated. Brussels has neither the stomach for the job, nor the united purpose to undertake it.
The United States is in unprecedented decline. Future generations will look back at the past decade as the beginning of the end of American hegemony.
Admitting Georgia to the NATO club wouldn't have prevented the recent crisis in the region, and could have even made it worse.
Over the centuries, the causes and justifications for war have evolved. But we remain caught in a Westphalian mindset, even though the nature of today’s substate threats demands an altogether-different mentality and a new breed of soldier—or at le
Jeffrey Sachs explains why the new world order of the twenty-first century is crisis-prone.
NATO is in a struggle for its life, and Afghanistan just may deliver the fatal blow.
Following Lord Palmerston's dictum, the United States may have neither permanent friends nor permanent enemies in the 21st century. We're left with a world of uncertainty—and opportunity.
As part of a new series expressing the views of foreign policy thinkers around the world, France's new president discusses Franco-American relations, the European Union's future and the Middle East.
Even though the United States has lost its Cold War–era aura of "specialness", the world still needs U.S. leadership.
The EU’s policy incoherence toward Russia compromises Europe’s energy security.