Europe needs a global strategy
The increasingly sharp rivalry between the United States and China could have negative economic and other consequences for Europe. But instead of forging a strategic vision suitable to th...
Joschka Fischer was German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1998-2005, a term marked by Germany\'s strong support for NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999, followed by its opposition to the war in Iraq. Fischer entered electoral politics after participating in the anti-establishment protests of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and played a key role in founding Germany\'s Green Party, which he led for almost two decades.
The increasingly sharp rivalry between the United States and China could have negative economic and other consequences for Europe. But instead of forging a strategic vision suitable to th...
Yo nací en 1948, y el riesgo de una Tercera Guerra Mundial con armas nucleares fue parte muy real de mi niñez. Esa amenaza (o al menos, la amenaza de destrucción total de Alemania del est...
La canciller alemana, Angela Merkel, no tiene fama de ser una oradora particularmente electrizante; se dice más bien que su hablar sosegado tiene el poder de dormir a los oyentes. Pero ha...
Pueden suceder muchas cosas entre hoy y la segunda ronda de la elección presidencial francesa el 7 de mayo, de manera que todavía es demasiado pronto para celebrar. Pero, inclusive con la...
After the shock of the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum and Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States in 2016, this will be a decisive year for Europe. Upcoming parliame...
Now that Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States, the end of what was heretofore termed the “West” has become all but certain. That term described a transatlantic wor...
Las comunidades pobres y rurales de todo el mundo dependen de plantas y animales para procurarse refugio, alimento, ingresos y medicinas. De hecho, el Objetivo de Desarrollo Sostenible de...
Most of Europe’s history has been marked by conflict. The American historian Robert Kagan wrote in 2003 that “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus”; but Europe was for ce...
Since 2009, when the financial crisis that started in America in 2008 shook the eurozone to its core, crisis management has become Europe’s new normal. Indeed, crisis has followed crisis ...
At stake in the United Kingdom’s upcoming referendum on whether to remain a member of the European Union is the nature of the EU itself. The UK wants a different kind of Europe than the o...