Most Europeans rejoiced at Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election, but they do not think he can help America make a comeback as the pre-eminent global leader…

Jacob Berkowitz The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress is pleased to announce the appointment of Jacob Berkowitz as Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology,...

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Six months in, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed a global order in transition.

As Europe and the world undergo dramatic changes, the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) is also evolving. We are renewing our governance and reaching out to new audiences. Teresa Gouveia…

The 2020 Munich Security Conference showed how the ties that bind global players together are being weaponised in a new great power competition.

New polling for ECFR reveals the West is consolidating – while facing an increasingly post-Western world, in which powers such as India and Turkiye are readier than ever to act independently.

The annual Munich Security Conference was themed "Westlessness" defining “a widespread feeling of uneasiness and restlessness in the face of increasing uncertainty about the enduring purpose of the We

The prospect of Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency has left three Republican tribes vying it out to fill in the details of his hazy foreign policy ambitions…

It is my great hope that the Open Society Foundations, in its reconfigured form, will be able to help the European project realize its full promise.

Europeans will have to put their money where their mouth is to maintain relations with the US over Ukraine – and deliver a ‘long war plan’, such as that proposed by ECFR.

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Three books give their views on rising tensions between east and west, the theatres of battle and what must be done to gain ascendancy

Recent polling for ECFR suggests that Europeans have come closer together in their support for Ukraine. But the factors driving this unity are fragile, contingent, and may not last…

Power is now defined by control over flows of people, goods, money, and data, and via the connections they establish. Only states that see the new map of geopolitical power clearly will be able to…

Matteo Salvini has launched the “League of Leagues” – an alliance of nationalist parties across the continent. And he brings friends.

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Among the many legacies that US President Donald Trump received from his predecessors is a “secondary sanctions” regime that allows the US to bar malign actors from most of the global economy.

The prime minister may look secure but before long the pandemic could be his undoing