America as a political community is losing faith in Germany. Even if the Biden administration is currently satisfied with a Germany that does the minimum, this is hardly a foundation on which to build a new leadership model for the European security order
On a fundamental level, Europe’s lack of agency in the Russia-Ukraine crisis stems from a growing power imbalance in the Western alliance
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year 2022
Mark Leonard and Jeremy Shapiro predict ten bright and bold policy projections for the year to come
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
What Trump gets up to stuck in quarantine could disrupt the US and the world in frightening ways
The 2020 election will likely determine whether America seeks a deal with Russia to carve up Europe into spheres of influence or launches a new, ideological cold war against the country
For Trump, coronavirus could be the right pandemic at the right time – supplying Republicans with the cover to stop voters turning out
European governments can only defend their citizens effectively if they cooperate at a European level and reinforce multilateral structures based on openness and information sharing
There will be no transatlantic response to the coronavirus. It will drive us apart rather than bring us together – as pandemics always do