Without Chancellor Angela Merkel making overtures to Turkey, the EU will lose a great opportunity to anchor the country to Europe.
Civil wars are notoriously long and bloody. While both sides in Syria still believe in victory, the international community can only try to contain the worst of the crisis.
Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
Valerie Amos, UN Under Secretary General and Emergency Relief Coordinator, talks to Judy Dempsey about the tragedy unfolding in Syria.
Koert Debeuf, a European Parliament official, gives an eyewitness account of the Syrian people’s suffering and their desperate quest for help.
A German lawmaker explains why her country is so hesitant to participate in the Mali missions.
Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe's role in the world.
Conferences like the MSC have become far too big and unwieldy to take away a clear message. But they are still useful.
President Obama wants the issue off his desk, and Iranians say they have no red lines. So can talks begin soon?
Europe’s global ambitions would suffer a huge setback if Britain would choose to leave the EU in 2017 and if Turkey would, at the same time, give up on membership.
Most international policy prognosticators seem to agree that 2013 will bring a decisive turn in the endless travails over the Iranian nuclear program.
Although fraught with dangers, the upcoming Friends of the Syrian People meeting in Marrakesh offers a genuine opportunity to move closer to ending the Syrian tragedy.
German parliamentarians will vote this week on sending Patriot missiles to Turkey, a move some fear will be a first step towards a far more active role in the Syrian conflict.
Europe’s disunity on the question of Palestinian statehood shows once again its lack of strategy to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and ultimately to deal with the new Middle East.
Europe and the United States were still busy praising Morsi for the cease fire that he brokered so successfully in Gaza when he, suddenly and quietly, made a grab for nearly dictatorial powers in his country.
A number of things need to happen before an effective relationship can be built between the EU and the new Syrian opposition.
Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe's role in the world.
Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.
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.
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