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Donald Trump receives Viktor Orban

The Orbanisation of American media is here

  • Chris Herrmann
  • Commentary

Hungary’s media landscape exists in a grey zone, where journalism’s boundaries are set by the whims of regulatory power. Under Trump, America is heading in the same direction

BearInBaltics update

The bear in the Baltics: Reassessing the Russian threat in Estonia

  • Jennifer Kavanagh, Jeremy Shapiro
  • Policy Brief

While Estonia’s geography makes it vulnerable to a Russian invasion, it is also protected due to weakened Russian capabilities, stronger European defence cooperation and its own preparedness. NATO’s European members should be reassured but not complacent

Trump’s new National Security Strategy

  • Podcast
  • Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes

Mark Leonard welcomes Gladden Pappin and Majda Ruge to explore what America’s new National Security Strategy means for Europe

Muenchener Konferenz Abschluss der Verhandlungen im 'Führerbau' in Müchen; Mussolini unterzeichnet das Abkommen

A tale of two buildings: Munich and Vietnam at war in Ukraine

  • Jeremy Shapiro
  • Commentary

The West’s response to Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is caught between the 1938 Munich warning against appeasing aggression and the 1960s Vietnam lesson against overextension. The answer lies in tempering the two extremes

Trump’s quest to transform the West

  • Chris Herrmann
  • Commentary

The Trump administration is drawing on Roman Empire imagery, and Trump’s own version of Christianity, to reinforce its perception of Western values and impose conditional bilateral partnerships. Europeans need to be ready for America’s whole-hearted shift towards values-based diplomacy