Jamaican Shipwreck: Will Merkel Go Down with the Ship?
For more than a month, representatives of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Jamaican Shipwreck: Will Merkel Go Down with the Ship?
A nation must think before it acts.
Tag Archive: Germany
Russia’s Existential Threat to NATO in the Baltics
NATO seems more united today than it has been at any time since the end of the Cold War....
NATO’s Baltic Defense Challenge
As NATO expanded eastwards after the Cold War, the geography that the Alliance needed to defend changed significantly (See...
Effectiveness of Economic Sanctions on Russia’s Economy
In early 2015, Western leaders thought they had Russia cornered. A year earlier they imposed on Russia economic sanctions,...
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Are You Staying, Or Just Passing Through? The Geopolitics Of Asylum
European politics have been roiled over the past few years by the question of how the EU as a...
Greek Debt, Austerity, and the Myth of the Hypocritical Hun
Sunday’s referendum in Greece, in which more than 60% of voters rejected the latest offer from the so-called “troika”...
Bundeswehr 2.0: A German Military for a New Normal
A visit to Germany’s military history museum in Dresden reveals just how deeply ambivalent modern Germany is about its...
Merkel in Westminster
Angela Merkel makes for an unlikely cheerleader. Nevertheless, as the European Union’s senior head of government, and the leader...
Winds of Change: Comparative Energy Security Policies
The meltdown of three reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on...