Article • December 8, 2021

How will he change Germany?


Article • December 14, 2020

Tokyo is casting the veil off its return to militarism.


Article • July 28, 2011


Feature • August 1, 2008

A terrorist command center within striking distance of Europe.



Article • October 22, 2017

Meet Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s new chancellor and the world’s youngest head of state.


Article • July 13, 2026

Behind public diplomacy lies a far deeper military relationship than either government has admitted.


Article • May 21, 2012

As the city of Aachen awards the annual Charlemagne prize, European leaders congratulate each other on following in the legacy of Charlemagne. But what is this legacy? It contains a dangerous warning for you today!


Article • July 13, 2013

Egypt’s liberal groups condemn the army’s new constitution.


Feature • May 1, 2006

Any world power with vast overseas commitments must control the seaways necessary for safe passage of its goods, its citizens and its military forces. Why then have Britain and America so casually yielded up this power they once guarded so jealously?


Feature • January 17, 2022

Australia stands for nothing, so it gives away everything, even its character.


Article • November 21, 2013

Germany lays out its ambitions for the next four years, including a plan to ‘strive for an ever closer associate of European forces, which can evolve into a parliamentary European army.’


Article • September 11, 2017

Britain is building new warships, but will they make its Navy more powerful, or less?


Article • August 21, 2006


Article • October 24, 2013

With elections out the way, German Chancellor Angela Merkel can now return to fixing the euro.


Article • January 8, 2018


Article • March 18, 2008

Many Europhiles believe post-Cold War NATO should be more Eurocentric. The secretary general is one.


Article • January 2, 2023




Article • January 20, 2010

The German military-industrial complex went underground after the war, but it is back.


Feature • April 1, 2013


Article • July 10, 2024


Feature • February 1, 2012

The peoples that have defined the world for two centuries face an uncertain future. What’s ahead for the U.S. and Britain?


Feature • June 18, 2020

Under Donald Trump, the United States is holding China accountable more than ever. How will this budding rivalry end?