Although the world currently seems to be "on hold" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conflicts are continuing, often in their full intensity, but with diminished international attention. This...
The myriad social protests in hundreds of US cities and towns following the death of George Floyd have laid bare a number of significant societal fault lines. The racial question - whereby racial...
Amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East, collective security arrangements have historically proven elusive. Mutual mistrust, no shared perceptions of threats,...
EU-Japan relations have received a major boost with the signing of a major trade accord and a strategic partnership agreement this year. The EU and Japan have decided to upgrade their partnership...
Friday's attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, just outside the Strait of Hormuz, where about a fifth of the world's energy traffic...
One year after the US's unilateral withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with Iran, 21 directors and senior researchers from leading European think tanks...
The rise of a nationalist agenda that promotes a vision of national sovereignty as hardly compatible with shared governance mechanisms is transforming the political landscape in Europe and...
In recent years, China has become a major economic and diplomatic player in Europe through what it calls "One Belt, One Road." With Italy the first major Western power to sign a Belt and Road...
President Trump’s announcement that the US should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, land Israel seized from Syria...
Nathalie Tocci, back from the Munich Security Conference, where she chaired the first panels, talks about the main messages and lessons of the conference...