With Greenland making front page news, the world’s attention is turned to the Arctic. And yet, this region has been the focus of increasingly consequential geopolitical competition for centuries,…
The Prognosis This year marks NATO’s 70th anniversary, and there is good reason to celebrate. At first glance, the alliance may appear plagued by trepidation and tension over various escalating…
The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague is a testament to liberal normative aspiration in international politics—the conviction that there should be a neutral juridical body,…
History was made when Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Bronisław Geremek signed an accession agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on March 12, 1999. Five years later, on…
In the past few years, several troubling developments—from a renewed arms race between the United States and Russia to North Korea’s development of a missile capable of striking the U.S.
When U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey released the text of the Green New Deal in February 2019, they were paying homage to the policies that lifted…
Between May 23 and May 26, 2019, twenty-seven European countries (twenty-eight, if the United Kingdom does not manage to leave the European Union by then) with a combined population of…
The likely departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union will be a formative moment for the European integration project. Across the EU, governments have asked themselves what the…
Since its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has followed the lead of the United States and other countries who have pursued bilateral and regional trade negotiations as multilateral…
As part of its efforts to address Chinese trade practices, the United States demanded a provision in the recently negotiated United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that constrains any of the parties…
