Europe

He clearly has no time for lengthy and complicated diplomatic processes.

Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were isolated from Europe, but now there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

His defense secretary pick wants to get rid of “woke” generals.

The former national security advisor says that crises will “come very early on” in the new administration.

Key weapons are running out as Moscow tries to mobilize ever more labor and resources.

Now backed by Russia, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is less likely to be open to the kind of diplomacy we saw in Trump’s first term.

Ready or not, the continent must now take responsibility for its own backyard.

A contested election may cement Tbilisi’s drift away from the West.

The former U.S. leader’s reelection has cast a pall over tense climate talks in Baku.

Lessons in resilience are being shared from Ukraine to Taiwan.

It emphasizes limited Chinese activities instead of the much more potent Russian threat.

The European Union’s top diplomat makes the case for sanctions to protect global peace.

Kyiv has been increasingly frustrated with the outgoing Biden team, and a Kamala Harris victory would have posed its own challenges.

Past criticisms are coming back to haunt U.K. leaders.

The incoming U.S. president will be more extreme and less restrained.

A dysfunctional, dithering government has no place in the era of Donald Trump.

Foreign policy might have mattered in the election after all—but mainly in Michigan.

Under a new Trump administration, Ukraine’s government can't avoid considering a nuclear weapon.

Victory for Putin would be a grave blow to U.S. power.

An arms procurement fund would secure Ukraine’s ability to fight while helping American workers.

Instead of leveraging Moscow’s faltering prospects by upping aid to Ukraine, Western leaders are paralyzed by fright.

Two new books issue fresh warnings about Silicon Valley ahead of the U.S. election.

The Italian fascists’ pro-natalist policies are being revived today by figures from J.D. Vance to Viktor Orban and Vladimir Putin.

A dark comedy explores what happens when the G-7 leaders are literally and figuratively lost in the woods.

From a modern twist on “The Magic Mountain” to Ethiopian American family secrets.

As Americans prepare to vote in a tense presidential contest, these countries show a way out of political polarization.

The result will have profound consequences for the major crises roiling the world

Scholars don’t trust the Republican nominee when it comes to managing U.S. foreign policy.

Dependent on American support for the war, Kyiv is trying to avoid getting caught in the politics of it all.

A new onslaught from abroad is expected as the votes are counted and certified.

The continent has put the world’s strictest environmental standards into law—and is failing to meet them.

The declaration from last week’s summit reads like a cri de coeur for the existing order.

After years of government investigations, we still don’t know if the former president is actually in Putin’s pocket.

Washington and its allies must stand with the Georgian people.

Moscow is depleting its rainy-day savings to plug its war-induced fiscal deficit while preserving social stability.

Maricopa County in Arizona has been a lightning rod for election deniers since 2020. Officials there say they’re prepared this time around.

Ukraine is desperate for men on the front—but Ukrainians are increasingly desperate for a break.

Washington should abandon liberal universalism and work with the empire it already has.

What to know about the bloc as its summit concludes.

The country’s drift away from Washington and Brussels has pushed it closer to Moscow and Beijing.

Lofty rhetoric can’t hide the lack of serious thinking about what a credible victory would entail.

Police are struggling to stay ahead of a pandemic-fueled boom.

The U.S. national security advisor defended the administration’s approach to allies and adversaries alike.

Questions abound about the combat quality of Pyongyang’s troops, but they could bail out Moscow and end up alarming Seoul.

Opposition leaders say the Oct. 26 vote is crucial for the country’s democracy—as well as its chance to join the European Union.

By applying to join the group, Ankara is signaling to the West that it should not be taken for granted.

Viktor Bout’s talks with the Houthis show that Moscow has few limits.

Innovation happens through international networks like the one running through Queen Square.

Why hard-line populists now say that others are the extremists.

Last week’s state visit to Berlin might be the last feel-good transatlantic moment for a while.

How an ad hoc gaggle of countries turned themselves into global revolutionaries and why it might yet matter for the West.

The Kremlin has devised a very 21st-century way to gather fellow travelers.

The U.S. president's final visit to Europe will focus on his legacy—and what comes next.

China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran are expanding their collaborations.

The Kremlin is desperate to return Moldova to its sphere of influence, but its meddling is no longer working.

Political and economic assaults are a growing part of conflict.

A new embrace of colonial legacies has finally put the squad in reach of the World Cup tournament.

A Soviet-born journalist investigates how Lisbon shed its imperialist dreams.

The eastern city is a key military hub, but it’s also critical to Ukraine’s steel industry.

Berlin has finally realized a globalized world is also a risky one.

After a protracted legal dispute, the British government will hand the Chagos Islands back to Mauritius while preserving the U.S. military base at Diego Garcia.

Kamala Harris hopes to turn Ukraine into a winning issue in the battleground states.

Kyiv wants to hold land to trade with Moscow in any future peace deal.

The Sino-Russian partnership is tighter than the Sino-Soviet one, with no reason for a split any time soon.

Germany and others have been reluctant to close loopholes for their exporters, but that is slowly starting to change.

Pyongyang is playing Russia and China against each other—and has given up on the United States.

The Kremlin is weaponizing an alternative version of the website—and rewriting the facts of Putin’s war against Ukraine.

Postmodernism is dead. Long live postmodernism.

What began with Russian trolls on Facebook will require a lot more coordination to root out.

Pyongyang’s decrepit artillery rounds have kept Russia in the fight, and they might be the currency of even greater threats in Asia.

Ahead of elections, the government is trying to crush the press and NGOs.

The victory of Austria’s Freedom Party marks the normalization of the continent’s conservative fringe.

Robert Habeck may be deepening the social divisions over environmental policy that he always wanted to overcome.

From Gene Kelly to Harrison Ford, here are nine movies you can stream set in the City of Lights.

Gamers have become unwitting agents in a global culture war.

And what the European Union could do to catch up.

Despite its failure to stop wars, the U.N. has made progress on issues from disease eradication to climate change.

A divided continent is still fatally dependent on Washington.

Britain’s prime minister has a lifelong theory of reform that may not fit current needs.

How Washington can make sure that Berlin’s Gazprom era is over.

As world leaders descend on U.N. headquarters, a Russian gambit on Sunday underscored tensions at the summit.

In Istanbul’s most conservative borough, a secular woman is charting the path to a post-Erdogan future.

But implementing the new ban on Russia-linked churches could get messy.

From Sicilian psychodrama to Qaddafi’s Libya.

In a Netflix adaptation, Boccaccio’s dirty “Decameron” speaks directly to the strangeness of COVID times.

It’s time for the ultra-rich to take responsibility for their role in the climate crisis.

American companies and officials reveal a flurry of warnings and actions against Russia, China, and Iran. 

European Union sanctions would matter more than U.S. ones in a Taiwan war scenario.

To stop far-right populism, the federal government is pushing regional democracy-promotion programs.

After working to achieve interoperability between national militaries, the alliance now needs to do the same with the private sector.

A new survey reveals that support for international cooperation among global south countries is dismally low.

Hungary’s leader argues that sending troops to Chad will slow migration, but he seems to be seeking security partnerships in exchange for lucrative minerals.

Organized crime is turning to juveniles to dodge tougher sentences.

The military alliance’s outgoing chief discusses Moscow’s partnerships with Beijing, Pyongyang, and Tehran.

Revisionist powers like to use international law as a weapon. Now the West is thinking creatively, too—to uphold the order, not break it.

A new book offers a masterful glimpse into the world of economic warfare.

As the German government takes unprecedented steps to police its borders, the center right is demanding to go much further still.

In Germany and elsewhere, the impact has been modest.

The onetime cause célèbre of the international left is being appropriated for authoritarian ends.

One mother’s lonely journey through the trauma of racist violence.