Europe’s security turn remains strikingly ad hoc, despite its massive increase in defence spending.
- Professor of International and European Politics, University of Warwick
Europe is rattled by Trump’s approach to geopolitics but doesn’t seem able to produce an alternative vision.
Talk of boosting defence spending is not the same as crafting a new vision for geopolitics.
Ursula von der Leyen has announced that the EU will have a dedicated defence commissioner for the first time.
Ad-hoc responses to the situation in Ukraine don’t amount to a coherent vision.
Have European leaders learnt nothing from the backlash over their actions during the last global crisis?
Europe needs to rethink its priorities on Syria – fast.
The transatlantic relationship can no longer be an engine of global democracy thanks to Donald Trump. So the EU must rethink its partnerships with other democratic powers.
The French president is calling for a series of conventions to shape future decisions. But these projects have a history of going awry.
After a high point in 2011, it looked like a global wave of protest had crested. But another one is surging.
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