With the rise of China, and the election of a new communist party leadership that will oversee China’s development over the next decade, the world is drifting back toward a bipolar constellation.
Orhan Pamuk certainly speaks his mind when he vents his disappointment at Europe’s waning interest in Turkey, but he overlooks two important issues.
The special relationship between Europe and the United States has come under strain in recent years,and has exposed deep cultural differences between both sides.
If Europeans want to be taken seriously as partners, have a modicum of influence on U.S. foreign policy decisions, and keep the United States interested in Europe, the homework is theirs to do, not America’s.
The re-election of Obama means one thing for Europe: the need for more Europe, not less.
Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe's role in the world.
In the guise of a strictly legal procedure, the Gazprom case has brought into focus a geopolitical issue of the highest importance for Europe and Russia.
Any doubts you might have harbored about the effectiveness of the EU’s soft power have been confirmed by a devastating report by the European Court of Auditors on Kosovo.
Turkey is doing itself no favors if it wants to maintain what supporters it has left in the EU.
Europe’s economic crisis is being used to carve out more fundamental divisions between Europe and its Muslim neighbors.
Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe's role in the world.
Europe's existential political and economic crisis has made it clear that the EU can't be properly managed without a functioning Franco-German axis.
In an interview with Judy Dempsey,Graham Muir, a British security expert with the EDA, discusses the future of European defense cooperation.
Instead of talking the federalist talk, which is pushing Britain away from the heart of Europe, continental leaders must make London an offer that it cannot refuse.
If Germany changes its attitude now, the EU might finally find itself in a position where it could adopt a coherent and value-oriented strategy on Russia.
Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
Recent statements by Turkish ministers feed the impression that Turkey is distancing itself from the EU accession process for fundamental ideological reasons.
Surely, despite all the reasons for justifying no intervention of any kind in Syria, it is time for NATO to stop sitting on the sidelines.
Europeans are so concerned with the crises in peripheral economies that it will come as a surprise that we may be at the beginning of a developing crisis in China.
The paradox of European unification is that it is making it possible for the peaceful fragmentation of national states.