Trump’s choice: Go big or go home
As the ramifications of the joint US-Israeli assault on Iran continue to spread, and as the war is already diverging from what clearly seems to have been the attackers’…
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NATO: ‘US renegotiating the price of its protection,’ leaving EU uncertain
As the Trump administration presses NATO to rethink its doctrine and assume greater European responsibility, unease is spreading across the continent about both…
Security without deterrence
As the geometry of international relations alters under the shockwaves emanating from the White House, old assumptions about alliances begin to fray.
Would Trump defend Taiwan?
President Trump’s tariff bombshell is more than simply a historic economic decision with geopolitical consequences on the side, as second-order effects.
How to fix the world: the elements of global stability
The world has destabilised to a very large degree, very quickly. It is now riven with conflict and war.
An historic US security break with Europe is becoming increasingly likely – regardless of whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is in the White House
We have been travelling in this direction for many years. First there was Obama’s pivot to the Pacific, an early reaction to China’s rise;
Post-Ukraine, everything has changed and there is no return to normal: Reconfiguring the State to deal with recurring crises is now a matter of survival
Much of European public attention is riveted on internal issues such as net zero and deindustrialisation, the cost of living crisis, illegal migration or indeed…
The West’s geopolitical situation is deteriorating – and we are doing too little about it: Five scenarios for the next decade
In a world of war, we must recalibrate our grand-strategic thinking. Here are five geopolitical scenarios for what could happen in the coming years
‘Give war a chance’: Calls for ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Gaza are only playing into terrorists’ hands
As the USS Dwight D Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group steams at full speed across the Atlantic towards the Middle East, the hope must be that the United States, alongside…
Western statecraft is failing: We need a new strategic mindset
The current drift of Western statecraft is not sustainable.