The US-European alliance is the real-world expression of the West – of a sense that both sides of the Atlantic are in it together. This is what we have lost over the last four years.
Unrest in Belarus has forced Moscow to look for new ways to strengthen its political and economic control in the country
No matter who wins the US election this week, the narrow margin will focus US attention at home, giving China geopolitical room for manoeuvre
Victory for Joe Biden is likely to bring three big policy shifts in the region, opening new possibilities and challenges for Europeans
No matter who wins the US election, the EU will need to play a bigger security role in its neighbourhood
European activities in Africa risk unwittingly drifting onto territory contested by the US and China on their own terms
Nuclear non-proliferation is a fundamentally European issue which is not yet part of any EU agenda
Regardless of the election result, Moscow will continue to see US policies as provisional – as a part of a temporary phase that one needs to wait out, to see what follows
Easing restrictions too quickly in the summer saw Latvia squander its early success and the fruits of its cooperation with Estonia and Lithuania
ECFR’s José Ignacio Torreblanca in conversation with Applebaum about her latest book, The Twilight of Democracy
