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East Meets West: Xi, Macron, and Merkel in Paris, March 2019

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The Old World and the Middle Kingdom

Europe needs to level the economic playing field with China and guard against Chinese political influence, but it remains divided over how seriously to take the Chinese challenge.

Julianne Smith and Torrey Taussig

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Foreign Policy September/October 2019 Essay

The Old World and the Middle Kingdom

Europe needs to level the economic playing field with China and guard against Chinese political influence, but it remains divided over how seriously to take the...

Julianne Smith and Torrey Taussig

NATO Jun 17, 2019 Snapshot

How to Save the Transatlantic Alliance

The current damage to the transatlic relationship will outlast Trump. Saving the alliance will require hard work from Europe and the United States alike.

Norbert Röttgen

At an European Union summit in Brussels, Belgium May 2019

NATO July/August 2019 Essay

Europe Alone

The transatlantic relationship was in trouble long before Trump began inveighing against the EU, NATO, and European carmakers. What will it take to revive it?

Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad

A mural attributed to the British artist Banksy at the Port of Dover in the United Kingdom, December 2018

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Jun 6, 2019 Snapshot

Jihadists Head Home

Western ISIS fighters and their children are stuck in camps and prisons in northern Syria and Iraq. Their governments don’t want to take them back—and are resorting to...

Jytte Klausen

Women at an IDP camp in northeastern Syria, April 2019

EU Jun 3, 2019 Snapshot

What’s Left of the Left?

The optimistic illusions of the left have been replaced by the dark imaginings of the nationalist right.

Mitchell Abidor

Socialist Party/Place Publique candidate Raphaël Glucksmann at a rally in Lyon, May 2019

Europe May 23, 2019 Snapshot

The Elections That Will Decide Europe’s Future

Can the EU overcome its democratic deficit?

Saim Saeed

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage gestures as he leaves a polling station after voting in the European elections, in Biggin Hill, United Kingdom, May 2019

Trump Administration May 13, 2019 Snapshot

Viktor Orban Wants Trump’s Help in the European Elections

Will Trump endorse Orban's populist project in the European elections?

Kim Lane Scheppele

Salvini and Orban at a press conference in Budapest, May 2019

EU Apr 3, 2019 Snapshot

Why Europe Is Getting Tough on China

As next week’s EU-China summit approaches, Europe has begun to fundamentally rethink its China policies.

Andrew Small

French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attend a meeting at the Élysée Palace in Paris, France, March 2019

Brexit Mar 27, 2019 Snapshot

The Brexit Breakup Gets Messier

Divorce negotiations have set off a heated debate about the United Kingdom’s future relationship with the European Union and strained arrangements with Northern...

Amanda Sloat

EU supporters at a demonstration in London, March 2019

Civil Society Feb 20, 2019 Snapshot

Oh, The Humanité

L’Humanité, the newspaper of the French Communist Party (PCF), has gone bankrupt at the moment of France’s greatest wave of popular protest since 1968: the “yellow...

Mitchell Abidor

At a yellow vests protest in Paris, France, December 2018

Post-Conflict Reconstruction Jan 8, 2019 Snapshot

Warnings From Versailles

A hundred years on, 1919 and the years that followed still stand as a somber warning about the dangers of isolationism and short-sighted leadership.

Margaret MacMillan

Terrorism & Counterterrorism Dec 19, 2018 Snapshot

Why Jihadist Attacks Have Declined in Europe

Europe is now at the end of a wave of jihadist violence that began on November 13, 2015, with a series of ISIS attacks in Paris. European governments should celebrate...

Jytte Klausen

French Gendarmes in Strasbourg after last week's attack, December 2018.

EU Dec 10, 2018 Snapshot

Broken Europe

Europe's structural contradictions mean it will never succeed.

Helen Thompson

Macron and Merkel at the NATO Summit in Brussels, July 2018.

Europe Nov 2, 2018 Snapshot

Angela Merkel’s Vision Problem

Angela Merkel's recent announcement that she will hand over the leadership of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) this December, and refrain from seeking another term...

Yascha Mounk

German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a session at the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, October 17, 2018

The Best of 2018 Oct 17, 2018 Snapshot

Is Going It Alone the Best Way Forward for Europe?

With U.S. untethering a continuing trend, a Europe whole, free, and at peace means a Europe able to fend for itself on the world stage

Benjamin Haddad and Alina Polyakova

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron attend a press conference after their meeting at the German government guesthouse Meseberg Palace in Meseberg, Germany, June 2018.

Trump Administration Oct 10, 2018 Snapshot

The EU Can’t Avoid U.S. Sanctions on Iran

U.S. sanctions on Iran are pushing the world to undercut U.S. power.

Elizabeth Rosenberg

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini address a news conference at the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria, January 2016.

Refugees & Migration Oct 5, 2018 Snapshot

How Europe Can Reform Its Migration Policy

Three years since the start of the European refugee crisis, the continent’s politics are still convulsed by disagreements over migration.

Alexander Betts and Paul Collier

Refugees in the makeshift camp known as "The Jungle," in Calais, October 2016.

EU Sep 5, 2018 Snapshot

Europe Is Making Its Migration Problem Worse

European development aid is unlikely to stem the flow of people crossing the Mediterranean. Instead, it will deepen authoritarian patterns of governance across North...

Loren B. Landau, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Hannah Postel

Europe Aug 31, 2018 Snapshot

Europe's Quest for Financial Independence

Brussels Will Find it Hard to Defy Washington—But It Has to Try

Thorsten Benner

Macron and Merkel in Brussels, July 2018.

Politics & Society September/October 2018 Essay

Against Identity Politics

Democratic societies are fracturing into segments based on ever-narrower identities, threatening the possibility of deliberation and collective action by society as a...

Francis Fukuyama

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