Tag: Europe
89 Articles
- Dialogues
Ambassador Richard Morningstar on Energy and Geopolitics in the Caspian Region
GJIA: In past interviews, you have stressed how energy security is also political and economic security. Why, if at all, should the United States and Western Europe care about…
January 31, 2020
- Dialogues
Kathleen McNamara on Brexit and the Future of the UK
GJIA: Brexit has been in the news recently. Jeremy Corbin announced on October 29th that he was in favor of a general election in December 2019. If a general election happens,…
November 19, 2019
- Global Governance
Brexit and Scotland
In practice, matters were more complicated. First, the Brexit vote begs the question of whether power should go back to the people, as in the referendum, or back to Parliament,…
November 12, 2019
- Global Governance
How Poland’s Law & Justice Party Plans to Win
From Hungary to Turkey, strong, democratically-elected parties have used their control over the legislature to change their constitutions and other rules of the game in ways that…
October 3, 2019
- Conflict & Security
NATO at 70: An Analysis of What’s Come, What’s Gone, and What the Future Holds
Looking Back When the Treaty of Brussels was signed on August 25, 1948, the world was, geopolitically-speaking, a strikingly different place. Just three years prior, Germany had…
September 3, 2019
- Conflict & Security
The United States and its New Allies in Europe
Over the past several years, the United States has observed its influence in Europe progressively diminish, with Brussels increasingly pursuing policies that are regarded as…
July 15, 2019
- Human Rights & Development
Part II: Bosnia and Herzegovina after the October 2018 Elections: Highly Volatile, Yet Functionally Inert
The Impetus Must Come from Below At least as worrisome and consequential to Bosnia as the illiberal engagement from Moscow, Ankara, or Beijing is that from Belgrade and Zagreb,…
July 7, 2019
- Human Rights & Development
Part I: Bosnia and Herzegovina after the October 2018 Elections: Highly Volatile, Yet Functionally Inert
More than half a year ago on October 7, 2018, Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereinafter “BiH” or simply “Bosnia”) held general elections in a highly charged environment in…
July 3, 2019
- Conflict & Security
Strengthening European Defense Capabilities: A Polish Perspective
Even as Poland celebrated the 20th anniversary of its accession to NATO last month, the assumptions Warsaw made in the 1990s are being tested by the recent onset of trans…
May 15, 2019
- Business & Economics
Will Moscow Fall Between the West and Beijing?
This article argues that although Russia’s gas industry is facing significant challenges at home and in the West, a closer relationship with China may only create further…
April 29, 2019