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Will France unseat UK as most capable US ally in EU?

US policymakers are worried about the UK. The US' closest and most capable ally is facing defence...

Foreign policy is no laughing matter

Most Singaporeans are not very interested in foreign policy, which they regard as remote from their...

NATO has never been more relevant

Thucydides stated that nations go to war for one of three reasons: fear, honor and interest. One...

Moscow’s account of Nato expansion is a case of false memory syndrome

In recent years, the bitterness of the Russian political elite against the west has been anchored...

The inglorious Bundeswehr

Germans have a reputation for being well-organized, efficient, and meticulous to the point of...

Was the Iraq war a crime or a mistake? Yes.

Pretty much everybody in American politics now agrees that the Iraq War was not a great idea. The...

China comes to Djibouti: Why Washington should be worried

The United States’ investment in Djibouti, which amounts to more than $70 million per year...

Defence spending is just as important as overseas aid

After the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War, we were supposed to reap the...

Putin uses the S-300 missile to dominate its neighbors. Now Iran can, too.

As the Kremlin lifts its ban on the delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran, and as Russian Foreign...

The world of threats to the US is an illusion

When Americans look out at the world, we see a swarm of threats. ... In fact, this world of threats...

Is Russia really a threat to NATO?

Elizabeth Zolotukhina, ISN (Switzerland) Over the next five years, Moscow aims to have...

British foreign policy: Punch and duty

Just over 20 years ago the foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, declared that Britain should aim to...

Russia has opened up another front in the Czech Republic

While eastern Europeans are talking about possible next targets in Ukraine (Mariupol, Kharkiv, or...

The mechanics of NATO's collective self-defense

Article 5 has several built-in weaknesses that stem from both the consensus voting procedure...

One professional Russian troll tells all

St. Petersburg blogger Marat Burkhard spent two months working at Internet Research in the...

NATO’s new perils

The NATO alliance seems stuck at a crossroads on Ukraine, unsure whether to move toward greater...

Are the Baltics next on Putin’s list?

Ben Nimmo, Central European Policy Institute (Slovakia) The Baltic States are a nervous...

Why sanctions on Russia will backfire

The American government tends to see sanctions against Russia as a low-cost policy that will...

Russia can't defeat NATO — but Putin might still try

Can Russia defeat NATO? The answer is “no.” Vladimir Putin’s armies cannot prevail in a direct...

Is NATO looking the right way?

With the Ukraine crisis developing and the ceasefire struggling, much of the British and US media...

Preserving Ukraine’s independence, resisting Russian aggression: What the United States and NATO must do

The report, authored by eight former senior U.S. diplomatic and military officials, urges the...

The myth of Russian humiliation

Looking back over the past quarter-century, it isn’t easy to name a Western policy that can truly...

Putin’s war on the West

His overarching aim is to divide and neuter that alliance, fracture its collective approach to...

The US-Russia implosion

Despite official U.S. predictions that we should expect more of the same from Russia in 2015, we...

Why Greece's call for WWII reparations from Germany is a very bad idea

Europe is founded on moral choices, which, although often forgotten, are nonetheless essential:...

Is NATO still relevant?

One of the fundamental raisons d’être for NATO is to provide security and protection for its...

Ukraine crisis analysis: The US and NATO cannot solve this – only Ukrainians can do that

Tension between the West and Russia, already high, ratcheted up even further by the shooting down...

NATO's future rises to focus of U.S. presidential election 2016?

NATO was critical to the shaping of the "new Europe" two decades earlier after the fall of the Iron...

A way out for Ukraine and Russia

The leaders of Russia and Ukraine will meet in Astana, Kazakstan, on January 15 to discuss, once...

Time to get real, NATO

As Russian military assets continue to pick apart Ukraine, we should be thankful the transatlantic...

Russia remakes history over NATO’s eastern expansion

The Russian invasion of Ukraine poses a fundamental challenge to the post-Cold War order, which has...

Russia’s position in the struggle against ISIS

Despite Russia’s preoccupation with Ukraine, it has still actively participated in the rapidly...

Second Cold War highly unlikely

Not only has this new Cold War not begun already, but it's hard to see how you could get it going...

Deterring hybrid warfare: a chance for NATO and the EU to work together?

Undoubtedly, prevailing in hybrid warfare presents NATO with an institutional challenge. To...

Is Washington losing central Europe — or throwing it away?

Five years ago, a group of renowned European leaders, including former Czech President Vaclav Havel...

Middle East meltdown

Go ahead: blame the rise of the Islamic State (IS) on George W. Bush's unwise entry into Iraq in...