PARIS — “Italy,” a contemptuous Metternich said two centuries ago as the peninsula was split into a myriad of fiefdoms, “is only a geographical expression.” Some in Beijing, Moscow, New Delhi, and even Washington regard Europe the same way.
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NEW YORK — After being cast out of the White House and Breitbart News, Stephen K. Bannon, often referred to as the mastermind of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has vowed to remake Europe.
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ISIS is not a territory on a map — it is a people group in search of a homeland, and as the last several years have proven, any piece of land from the Middle East to the Philippines will do.
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BERLIN — As in a game of chess, there are geopolitical moves through which a country can – unwittingly – checkmate itself. Opening a debate on German nuclear weapons would be such a move.
Read MoreNEW YORK — Now that Turkey is at loggerheads with its erstwhile ally, the United States, the country’s currency crisis has morphed into a political problem of the first order.
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Kofi Annan deserves to be remembered as a near-exemplary United Nations secretary-general (SG). Great chief executives need a guiding vision for the exercise of authority…
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PARIS — Les présidents des États-Unis Donald Trump et de la Commission européenne Jean-Claude Juncker ont peut-être évité une guerre commerciale le mois dernier, mais les problèmes…
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CAMBRIDGE — In July, I joined 43 other scholars of international relations in paying for a newspaper advertisement arguing that the US should preserve the current international order.
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Our photograph depicts Mr. Panagiotis Lafazanis, a key Minister of the Greek Government, early in 2015, bowing spectacularly to a Russian official at the Kremlin, during those nightmarish 6 months…
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