In 1965, Henry Kissinger wrote a book called The troubled partnership, in which he examined the tensions affecting the transatlantic alliance during the Cold War. A stable international order, he argued, demanded the leadership of …
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In the past week we’ve seen two important developments that will materially shape the new (post-Brexit) Europe. On 4 March the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) announced that about two out of every three of …
The European Union (EU) hasn’t had a great track record on enlargement recently. Some countries have felt that as soon as Brussels announced a tentative timetable for accession—what the EU calls a ‘membership perspective’—the initiative …
The strategic competition between the US and China dominates the Australian security and foreign policy discourse because of the geographic proximity of East Asia. Naturally, developments and events in that region that affect Australian interests …
Each February, Munich hosts big names in security, defence, geopolitics and strategy for the Munich Security Conference (MSC). This year, more than 500 participants, among them some 30 heads of state, arrived in the city …