International Organizations

A look at the United Kingdom’s security relationship with the EU in a post-Brexit world

By Brooks Tigner

For the future not only of the UK and the EU, but also for stable transatlantic relations, we should keep all our fingers and toes crossed that reason will prevail when that Brexit package is put to a vote by Westminster’s parliamentarians.

The odds on Brexit not happening are shortening

By Peter Westmacott

Brexiteers don’t think it marks enough of a clean break with the European Union (EU) while Remainers think it leaves Britain with the worst of all worlds.

Preventing World War III

By Frederick Kempe

Angell's "Great Illusion" turned out to be tragic delusion. By failing to anticipate the prospect of war between a rising Germany and a declining United Kingdom, the U.S. and others took too few steps to prevent it.

Emmanuel Macron can make France great again

By Nicholas Dungan

Macron’s approval ratings stand at an all-time low with over seventy percent of French people polled not expressing confidence in his leadership.Yet great hopes have been pinned on Macron and he has worked hard to fulfill them.

TRADE IN ACTION November 16, 2018

By Global Business & Economics Program

May’s Brexit deal: with Cabinet nod secured, next stop parliament

By David A. Wemer

Based on early reports on the details of the draft deal, the United Kingdom would remain in a customs union with the EU throughout a transition period and until there is an agreement on a permanent trade deal.

No good Brexit options

By Peter Westmacott

The only certainty is that Britain will be worse off if it leaves the EU, in whatever form. Since the referendum, Britain has changed from being the fastest-growing economy in the G7 to the slowest.

A ‘European’ army? eminently defensible but not probable for a long time to come

By Brooks Tigner

So how feasible is a common army for the foreseeable future? Not very—and not just for political reasons, but also for things quite mundane.

The World has come full circle—And taken a turn for the worse

By Nicholas Dungan

Yet the problems of today are also global, climate change first among them, together with the despoiling of the only habitat which humankind has and the destruction of the Earth's biodiversity by the selfish profligacy of modern man.

At 25, European Union suffers from anemic growth

By Álvaro Morales Salto-Weis

Mired in internal quarrels, from Brexit to rising Euroscepticism, European leaders may feel there is not much to celebrate.