On August 15th, the American and Russian presidents will meet in Alaska to discuss the future of Ukraine—without Ukrainians, ...

Russia meeting did not produce a deal, but the direction of travel it indicated should alarm Europeans. They must redouble ...

The Trump-brokered deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan signals public US involvement in one of Europe’s most protracted ...

The Trump administration is drawing on Roman Empire imagery, and Trump’s own version of Christianity, to reinforce its ...

Power is now defined by control over flows of people, goods, money, and data, and via the connections they establish. Only states that see the new map of geopolitical power clearly will be able to… ...

Strategic aid: How the EU-Lebanon migration deal can work To effectively deter migration to Europe, the EU’s €1 billion aid package to Lebanon must require that Beirut address its deep political and ...

Rogue NATO: The new face of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation The SCO is often seen as the anti-NATO, but Putin will struggle to convince the other members – especially the Central Asian states – ...

The security challenge posed by Chinese electric vehicles is in many ways greater – and trickier to solve – than that of 5G networks. With such cars entering the European market at growing speed, ...

Visiting Fellow Areas of expertise African geopolitics and international relations, energy transition and low-carbon industrialisation, natural resource governance, international trade ...

Europe’s Asian pivot: India and the quest for strategic autonomy Mark Leonard welcomes Rudra Chowdhury, James Crabtree and Janka Oertel to unpack Europe’s relations with Asia in the age of Donald ...

The effects of the Gaza war are spilling over into countries across the Middle East, including Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. This ECFR mapping project sets out the domestic and regional dynamics ...

Iraq’s persistent fault line: The dangers of escalating tensions in Kirkuk Recent escalations in Iraq’s contested Kirkuk province reveal the structural tensions inherent in the coalition government, ...