European integration is often touted as contributing to peace – but Moscow has other ideas.
- Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
Five years after Crimea returned to Russia, the east-west stalemate over Ukraine is far from stable.
As the divorce part of the Brexit negotiations approach their endgame, attention is turning to the future relationship between the UK and EU. The view from EU capitals.
There’s is often high drama behind the smiles, photo opportunities and carefully crafted language.
Instead of seeking to blame immigrants or Islamic State, Europeans need to rise to the challenge posed by the modern world.
Angela Merkel’s calmness is a key part of her negotiating strategy.
How asylum seekers became political pawns in Germany’s foreign policy agenda.
The way we judge nuclear risk isn’t just a rational calculation – it’s a reflection of much deeper biases.
Angela Merkel chose domestic politics over foreign policy, and the results could be disastrous.
Angela Merkel is in a tight spot, and her usual tactics won’t work.
Iran has never backed out of the nuclear nonproliferation regime in principle. But what about those who never signed up in the first place?
Many in the West suddenly seem to think we’re on the road to a new Cold War. Talk of a return to the era of nuclear rivalry swirls around Russia’s muscular and belligerent grandstanding over Ukraine, and…
It was a key moment in the Cold War: 50 years ago, on August 5, 1963, US and the Soviet Union signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater and in outer space (but…
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