Europe or the open sea? Brexit and European security
By voting to leave the EU the UK may lose its voice at a time when the union aims to play a strategically greater role in European defence, security and foreign policy
European Power
Brexit’s international observers: The good, the bad and the ugly
Why are the Brexiteers so worried about the American President’s intervention in the referendum campaign?
Britain might leave the EU. Here’s why Americans should care.
The collapse of European integration could potentially mean an end to the stability, order, and prosperity that the US worked very hard and spent a lot of money to help Europe achieve. And while it's unlikely we'd see a return to anything like the 20th century's massive world wars, the consequences could still extend far beyond Europe's borders
Trouble in Nagorno-Karabakh
The risk for miscalculation leading to all-out war is real and cannot be ignored
Germany can afford the populists
Germany is enough of a mature democracy to accommodate a party like AfD
Putin, poultry and politics: 5 remarkable things about the Dutch Ukraine referendum
The referendum on the Ukraine Association Agreement is throwing up some unexpected elements
Ukraine: The case for ‘voor’
Ahead of the Dutch Ukraine referendum, ECFR co-chair Carl Bildt makes the case for greater integration and cooperation with Europe's eastern neighbour
Beyond the Minsk Agreements
Why and how a combined UN/EU peacekeeping mission could disentangle the Donbas conundrum
Why we think terrorism is scarier than it really is (and we probably always will)
It is this terrifying symbiosis between the terrorists in the Middle East and the populist politicians in the West that is the real threat
The drawbridge fallacy
Terrorist attacks in Brussels were quickly pounced on by Brexit supporters, but is Britain's security is strengthened by EU cooperation?