In just two months, the new Trump administration has rattled Europe’s sense of security. For decades, amid the Cold War, the 1990s conflicts in the…

Is Western liberalism in retreat? From a high point after the Cold War, when it appeared liberalism would spread across the globe, today it is under…

The third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine comes at a moment of heightened anxiety for European leaders. Donald Trump’s decision to…

Britain has marked the fifth anniversary since it departed the European Union with little fanfare. While some of the government’s pro-Brexit critics…

How has the world beyond the Middle East changed in 2024? Perhaps the most significant development was the re-election of Donald Trump in November’s…

Donald Trump’s re-election has been greeted with joy by Europe’s populists. Even before the US presidential vote, right-wingers were on the march in…

Despite the parallels with Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006, the latest invasion already dwarfs the conflict of 18 years ago in terms of Lebanese…

The latest round of Sudanese peace talks collapsed in August. The US-mediated negotiations, hosted in Switzerland, appeared doomed from the start,…

The far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally, or RN) were not as victorious as they would have liked in the recent French parliamentary…

After a resounding electoral victory on 4 July, the Labour party now face the reality of government.Sir Keir Starmer and his cabinet have all been…