Americas

Russia’s Military Modernization

By Economist

Any illusion that Russia could be a partner of NATO and the West has gone. This has brought the realisation that what kind of forces Mr Putin has and the uses he might put them to matter.

US Military Exercise in Ukraine Postponed Due to Conflict with Separatists

By Jeff Schogol, Army Times

A U.S. Army exercise planned in Ukraine this summer has been postponed, a spokesman for U.S. European Command said.

US Needs Strategy for a ‘Westphalian-Plus’ World

By Barry Pavel, Defense News

We now are in a new era in which nation-states are joined on the global stage by powerful individuals, groups and others who can and are taking actions that are disrupting the traditional world order.

Dempsey to Urge NATO Chiefs to Step Up Mediterranean Security

By Marcus Weisgerber, Navy Times

America’s top general plans to push his NATO counterparts to increase security contributions in southern Europe along the Mediterranean at a meeting of the alliance’s uniformed leaders this week.

European Ground Troops Need to Join US Units Defending NATO’s Eastern Allies

By Steven Pifer, Financial Times

Given Moscow’s aggression in Ukraine, companies of airborne soldiers have been deployed to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to assure those countries and serve as tripwires. But the soldiers are all Americans. Where are the Europeans?

Shaping Political Parties in the Twenty-First Century

A Conversation with the Chairs of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) & the United States’ Democratic Party Recent electoral reforms in Mexico are a watershed moment in the country’s full transition to a pluralist, participatory democracy. Reforming the electoral process has been a constant pursuit of opposition parties such as the PAN and the PRD after […]