The U.S. pivot to Asia, Europe’s failure to collaborate effectively on defense, and now the eurozone crisis are combining to leave Europe largely powerless to shape the international politics of the 21st century.

Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.

Until economic and security issues are addressed, neither Libya and its North African partners, nor the EU will manage to find common ground necessary for broader cooperation.

Libya would win the praise of the international community if it offered both apology and compensation to the six formerly imprisoned Bulgarian medics charged with conspiring to infect children with HIV.

The EU’s human rights strategy will morph into a broader and wider kind of European creep, says leading British eurosceptic, Bill Cash.

Judy Dempsey has asked leading experts to share their literary preferences with Strategic Europe’s readers by providing their suggested reads for the summer.

By condoning the Horthy and Nyiro commemorations, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has really crossed a red line.

It seems that dissent is getting ineluctably closer to the core of Bashar Al Assad’s regime and that even the previously untouchable security system is now under threat.

Every week leading experts answer a new question from Judy Dempsey on the international challenges shaping Europe’s role in the world.

If Britain wants to stay relevant it must lose its delusions, overcome its mental malaise, commit to the European cause, and drive forward the very integration process that is its own last best hope.