Macron and the fate of Europe

It is often said that Europeans will never be serious international actors, in contrast to the US, because they do not have the will to be so. Emmanuel Macron is the latest prominent European to make an argument along such lines by calling NATO “brain dead.” However, Europe’s limitations on the international stage are, to […]

The origins and dangers of American activism and insularity

“We are … losing something solid at the core. We are losing that Pilgrim and pioneer spirit of initiative and independence”

Iran and the dawn of the ‘New Cold War’

The dangers of rhetorical political cultures

Juncker’s liberal aspirations and their faults

The need for an international political culture

Representing Western Authority

The Movement Behind the Man

From Vienna to Armageddon