Turmoil in the Middle East and north Africa directly affects Europeans. Yet their influence in the region has never been weaker. This project maps Europe’s role across the Middle East and north Africa, making the case that Europeans can do more to leverage their influence in pursuit of core interests
To fulfil its true potential, the EU needs to end its strategic cacophony and focus on capability building
The results of the European election confront EU leaders with a considerable challenge: navigating a new, more fragmented, and polarised political environment
Summary With anti-Europeans on their way to winning more than one-third of seats in the next European Parliament, the stakes in the May 2019 election…
Europeans remain unwilling to renew their thinking on nuclear deterrence, despite growing strategic instability. Their stated goal of “strategic autonomy” will remain an empty phrase until they engage seriously on this matter
Great power competition is increasingly shaping Europeans’ security environment, while other security threats are also on the rise, from terrorism and cyber attacks to climate change
The path to winning the normative war will not go so much through countering Russia as through improving Europe’s resilience and reinvigorating its model
The survey reveals the varying motivations of the 28 EU member states for keeping Turkey close — but not too close
Europeans should adopt more realist positions vis-à-vis China, to defend their own interests and urgently restore balance in the relationship
The election of Donald Trump has changed everything except European attitudes toward American security