Upstaged: Europe’s struggles to play the great tech game
This year’s Munich Security Conference showed once again that just two players will fight the global battle over tech. And guess who’s missing
Munich Security Conference 2020
Charm defensive: Macron and the Germans at the Munich Security Conference
To hope that German defence policy will become more French is equivalent to waiting for Godot.
Westlessness: Lessons from the Western Balkans
The EU’s interventions in the Western Balkans succeed only when key member states and the US act strategically and pull in the same direction
Facing the West’s Demons: The 2020 Munich Security Conference
The 2020 Munich Security Conference showed how the ties that bind global players together are being weaponised in a new great power competition.
Europe, 5G, and Munich: The China challenge and American mission
Bipartisan US pressure over China is rubbing Europeans up the wrong way. But the Americans are right that hard choices await
Land of the lost: My trip to the Munich Security Conference
With such a smorgasbord of offerings, most people eat the familiar food and leave the conference pleasantly full of the same ideas that they entered with