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.
America and the Continent may find themselves once again a united force to be reckoned with by the rest of the world. But the odds are grim.
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.
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.
Policymakers can break down regulatory barriers to trade by concerning themselves with consumer, not producer, welfare.
The dollar's international dominance, which underwrites our global economic leadership, can no longer be taken for granted.
Even though the United States has lost its Cold War–era aura of "specialness", the world still needs U.S. leadership.
America and Europe compete to influence the international system. The U.S. response should be a new formulation of an old strategy.
American is playing matchmaker to Turkey and the EU. It had better work. A broken engagement could mean a clash of civilizations.
The European Union is unable to achieve a true federal union, yet neither is it likely to fall apart. That leaves its internal incoherence as a long-term problem for the United States.