Given the Trump administration’s recent statements and policy pronouncements, European leaders no longer have any excuse for ...

The American capture of Maduro is a signal event in world geopolitics. Europeans must confront three immediate dilemmas ...

Twenty months of relentless war have not destroyed Hamas—but they may have reshaped it. The group’s offensive capabilities are depleted and its leadership is in exile or in hiding. Moderate factions ...

Hungary's media landscape exists in a grey zone, where journalism's boundaries are set by the whims of regulatory power.

At this year’s Munich Security Conference, US vice president J.D. Vance asserted that Europe faces more threats from within than it does threats from China and Russia. He was correct, but perhaps not ...

Quickly bringing in the Western Balkan candidates, Ukraine and Moldova to counter Russia or China poses many dilemmas for the ...

If you open your window on a quiet street in central Prague, the first sound you hear is the trrrrk-trrrrk-trrrrk of carry-on suitcases trundling across paving stones, as tourists walk to their hotel ...

EU enlargement is back at the top of the EU’s political agenda as Russia’s war against Ukraine has transformed it from a bureaucratic process into a matter of European security. This episode marks the ...

After a year of spiralling tensions, Ethiopians and Somalis are talking again: on 11 January, Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud went to Addis Ababa to reestablish diplomatic relations. The ...

Trump’s 28-point plan for Ukraine Podcast Emergency room Mark Leonard's World in 30 minutes 21 November 2025 Mark Leonard welcomes Jana Kobzova and Jim O’Brien to unpack the leaked 28-point US-Russia ...

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 ...

May 2025 Anatomy of a chokepoint Mapping power and conflict in the Red Sea This ECFR project maps the Red Sea region as a nexus of conflict, regional rivalries and global power plays. To address the ...