The EU trade strategy: Where is the “strategic” part?
Though individual goals of the EU’s trade strategy are laudable, by all usual definitions, it is not really a strategy at all
European Power
Obama’s Syria failure is a perfect case study in how bad foreign policy is made
The lesson is that even a president who has shown extraordinary awareness that the “Washington playbook” frequently dictates unwise military interventions often feels forced to compromise his policy
The German problem
How Angela Merkel’s handling of the refugee crisis emboldened the far right and led to troubling questions about her future as chancellor
The New Interventionists
As a new order takes shape, the roles countries have played for the last 25 years are likely to be reversed
How to react to Kyiv’s political crisis
At a certain point, Europe will have to decide wether it wants implementation of Minsk or reforms in Ukraine – it can't put its own weight behind both
Bashar al-Assad is a monster. But getting rid of him won’t fix Syria.
Justice is not the same as peace. In Syria, we have to choose
The complex tale of EU cohesion
Josef Janning discusses the first set of results from ECFR’s EU Cohesion Monitor
Making sense of Kadyrov’s political posturing
Kadyrov’s positioning of himself as a federal or even international leader, reflects his ambitions to play greater role in the future of Russia
Britain is part of Europe – like it or not
Its fate is inextricably bound up with that of the rest of the continent and its nation states, just as it has always been – we are condemned to sink or swim together
Disillusion at the UN: From Srebrenica to Aleppo
Confidence in the UN could fall to an all time low if Moscow continues to manipulate the Syria peace process to its military advantage