
Should Rishi Sunak be a diplomat?
International relations is one of the few arenas in which the Prime Minister can say he’s been moderately successful.
ByNato (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is an intergovernmental military alliance with 31 member states from Europe and North America. It was founded in 1949 with twelve members, including the US and the UK, committed to a principle of collective defence.
International relations is one of the few arenas in which the Prime Minister can say he’s been moderately successful.
ByThe war in Ukraine has broken the Franco-German axis that once defined Europe as the UK and Poland take charge.
ByThe US linguist on the war in Ukraine, how the West is provoking China and why the UK is “not…
ByThe Chinese ambassador to France said that ex-Soviet states don’t have an “effective status under international law”.
ByVladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine catalysed the most significant security restructure in northern Europe for decades.
ByAs with Jacinda Ardern, the Finnish prime minister’s international fame disguised her domestic woes.
ByRussia’s announcement that it will station nuclear weapons in its neighbouring country is intended to put pressure on the West.
ByThe Baltic leader has become the EU’s strongest advocate for an uncompromising response to Russia.
ByFollowing Turkey’s lead, Viktor Orbán is discovering his own power to twist circumstances to Hungary’s advantage.
ByComplacency and budget cuts have depleted western reserves since the Cold War.
ByIn 2019 Emmanuel Macron declared that Nato had suffered a “brain death”, but in Munich world leaders showed otherwise.
ByEuropean gaspolitik has defeated Russia this winter.
ByThe Wizard of the Kremlin has provoked fierce debate in France, where support for Russia lingers on both the right…
ByDavid Lammy’s priorities appear similar to Rishi Sunak’s – the difference is he may be able to actually deliver them.
ByIt is Kyiv – not the West – which has set Ukraine’s war aims.
BySome allies fear threatening to retake the peninsula could provoke a nuclear attack.
ByThe West’s military aid to Ukraine is getting heavier and heavier.
ByRussia can’t win its self-evidently stupid war – and working out what will happen next is almost impossible.
ByParis’s commendable backing to Kyiv is too often obscured by the president’s erraticness.
ByMoscow’s full-scale war did not come as a surprise to us, but we didn’t believe it would so closely replay…
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