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A Tale of Two Ceasefires March 22, 2025

President Donald Trump came into office promising a swift end to two wars in Gaza and Ukraine. He has taken a radically different approach to both conflicts than Joe Biden, and in some cases produced results. ...

Ukraine

Gaza

Reciprocal Tariffs Are Just What the U.S. Needs March 22, 2025

Reciprocal tariffs are coming soon. Many economists and trade experts are concerned that they may backfire on President Donald Trump. But if you take the politics out of the issue, reciprocal tariffs could be an important first step toward fixing lon...

tariffs

Why Trump’s Global Transformation Might Just Succeed March 22, 2025

Since returning to office in January 2025, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued a radical reshaping of US foreign policy. ...

Donald Trump

foreign policy

Gaza Could Get In the Way With Iran Talks March 21, 2025

Do US President Donald Trump and his advisers have a comprehensive strategy for the Middle East, or are they engaged in ad hoc efforts to put out the fires that continue to burn in the region? This is an important question brought to the fore by the ...

Gaza

Trump Ignores the Power of Nationalism at His Peril March 21, 2025

US President Donald Trump has exploited American nationalism as effectively as anyone in living memory. What sets him apart is his use of national humiliation as a political emotion. Any presidential candidate can talk their country up, but Trump kno...

Donald Trump

Reclaiming Our Sovereignty: 'AID' and the American People March 20, 2025

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy started the U.S. Agency for International Development with a strategic vision to expand American partnership and repel Soviet influence. He understood then what President Donald Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio do no...

foreign policy

Trump’s Tariffs Challenge India’s Economic Balance March 20, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have dominated headlines in India in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Trump announced that his reciprocal tariffs—matching other countries’ tariffs on American goods—will go into effect on 2 April, causing ...

tariffs

Would Americans Go to War Against China? March 20, 2025

When it comes to military force, U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a starkly split stance. On the one hand, Trump is a self-professed skeptic of foreign entanglements. ...

china

A New Western Alliance Is Already Taking Shape March 20, 2025

Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drum...

Western Europe

Trump’s Legacy: Ending Ukraine War & Countering China March 20, 2025

Trump seeks to end the Ukraine war through diplomacy and curb China’s influence, prioritizing U.S. strength, cultural sovereignty, and strategic leadership over conflicts and foreign control. ...

Donald Trump

china

Ukraine

Trump’s Call With Putin Has Bought Ukraine Time March 19, 2025

So who won from yesterday’s phone conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin? Arguably, no one did – but nor did anyone really lose. Efforts to end the fighting live, maybe to die, another day. ...

Russia

Hegseth Is Closing a Pentagon Office That Wins Wars March 19, 2025

Amid the institutional carnage of the first two months of the Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, few Americans will notice the demise of the Office of Net Assessment. That small outfit occupied a nearly windowless space in the Pentagon. Its wor...

Netanyahu Will Never Accept Peace March 19, 2025

Israel, backed by a capricious Donald Trump, never intended to honour the ceasefire. These airstrikes mark a dire new phase in the conflict...

Israel

Trump Fails To Get Putin To Stop the Shooting March 19, 2025

“Plan A is: Get the shooting to stop,” said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, noting the U.S. administration’s main goal is to secure a quick ceasefire before moving on to broader talks about a settlement to permanently end Russia’s war ...

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Russia

Trump Calls Canada to Action March 19, 2025

The U.S. is beating up on Canada.The friendship between the U.S. and Canada is historic but has fallen into an inexplicable confrontation. Bizarrely, President Trump has proposed that a fellow member of the powerful Group of Seven major economic powe...

canada

Donald Trump

economics

Trump Should Resist Another America-Last War in the Middle East March 18, 2025

In his inaugural address, President Donald Trump made clear that he wants history to remember him as a “peacemaker and a unifier.” In his telling, “we will measure our success not only by the battles we win but also by the wars that we end—and perhap...

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The Gaza Cease-Fire Was Always Going to End March 18, 2025

When Israel and Hamas finally agreed to a cease-fire in January, many outside observers credited the agreement to Donald Trump’s commitment to peace. Unlike Joe Biden, the story went, America’s new president was willing to put the screws to Israel to...

Gaza

Trump, Putin Agree to 30-Day Halt on Ukraine Energy Facility Strikes March 18, 2025

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Tuesday to a limited 30-day ceasefire against energy infrastructure targets in Ukraine, while talks aimed at advancing toward a broader peace plan will begin "immediately," th...

Russia

Ukraine

Europe Is Going Full 1790s America March 18, 2025

Trump and Russia are pushing the EU toward a “Hamiltonian moment,” where common debt helps build greater federalism. ...

European Union

Liberal Dreams & Geopolitical Realities in Brussels March 18, 2025

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term, the world of international relations has been upended by dramatic shifts in US foreign policy. Trump’s on-again-off-again threats of tariffs on allies and adversaries aside, the most s...

European Union

The Global Populist Right Has a MAGA Problem March 18, 2025

Nigel Farage loves Donald Trump. The 60-year-old’s day job is as the parliamentary representative for the English seaside town of Clacton, and as the leader of Reform, the latest of his populist right-wing parties. ...

No, Trump Is Not a ‘Russian Asset’ March 17, 2025

As soon as Donald Trump returned to the White House, the tired, old canard that the US president is a ‘Russian asset’ began to resurface. ...

Ukraine’s Future Depends on Donald Trump—Not Putin March 17, 2025

Now that the United States and Ukraine have agreed on a ceasefire, the ball is, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, supposedly in “Russia’s court.” ...

Ukraine

Europe Should Look to Churchill and de Gaulle March 17, 2025

Should we all be Gaullists now? In the language of France’s most important European partner, the answer is “Jein!” (a German word combining ja for yes and nein for no)....

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Charles de Gaulle

Consequences With U.S.-Europe Security March 17, 2025

President Donald Trump has sent a clear message to Europe in his first six weeks back in office that the era during which the continent could assume an American security blanket would cover it is over. The corollary is that Europe must bolster its ow...

Europe