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…
Conventional wisdom holds that alliances in a realpolitik world are temporary, bound to last only as long as the shared threats that drive states to form them. Not long after…
On January 29th, the British Parliament voted on a series of proposed amendments to change the course of Brexit negotiations. Most were voted down, but Members of Parliament (MPs) supported…
On January 31st, the Mortara Center for International Studies hosted Ambassador John Heffern as a panelist in a discussion of the challenges and consequences of the Brexit movement. Dialogues sat…
The United States has an extensive global network of security partnerships, the most important of which are in East Asia and Europe. U.S. allies in both regions are under…
