Europe & Eurasia

In order to tighten sanctions against Russia, Venezuela, and Iran, the Navy & Coast Guard should be used to interdict sanctions-evading cargo vessels and letters of marque should be issued against contraband carrying ships

Trump’s pivot to apparently full-throated support for Ukraine underscores a core principle of his “America First” doctrine: non-ideological flexibility in pursuit of U.S. national security objectives

Monsters must be dealt with. But there should never be confusion about what they are.

The heroic story of the Warsaw Uprising remains a symbol of defiance against tyranny, not just for Poland but the entire world

In the 19th and 20th century, Britain and America feared Russian dominion over all Eurasia. Today, China represents the same geostrategic threat to the West

In both the US and Britain, there is a long history of political fortunes shifting dramatically

The past five years’ cascade of crises points toward even darker storms ahead unless America changes course

Central and Eastern Europe, strongly anti-authoritarian from their own recent history of oppression, should be viewed by the US as essential partners in the new Cold War

Rory Stewart’s “Politics on the Edge” describes at length the failures of both David Cameron’s center-right neoliberalism and Boris Johnson’s populism, yet leaves the reader with hope for a renewed political future