

Contrary to widely held beliefs, Angela Merkel’s positions are easy to identify. She has made three fundamental decisions that have defined the structure of her foreign policy.

By failing on three counts to react strategically to challenges in the Middle East, the West has revealed its foreign policy performance to be breathtakingly miserable.

The EU’s approach toward its Eastern neighbors matters hugely for the region, for the EU, and for the West as a whole. That approach needs to be bolder and more strategic.

If decisionmakers are serious about military intervention in Syria, they should make a convincing case for a full-scale, sustained, and deadly blow against the Assad regime.

We asked a selection of Carnegie scholars for their favorite foreign policy movies. The results include classics, comedies, and thrillers and offer an entertaining playlist.

We asked a selection of Carnegie scholars for their favorite foreign policy movies. The results include classics, comedies, and thrillers and offer an entertaining playlist.

The long-awaited official review of the EEAS is smart, realistic, and ambitious. It is now up to the member states and institutions to drive EU foreign policy forward.

The EU’s foreign and defense policies are not the logical next steps toward further integration. But without them integration might become even shallower than it is today.

Even if EU foreign policy analysts’ working assumption is wrong, the outcome is the same: if Europeans want to matter in the world they must get their act together fast.

During the last sixty years, Europe has adopted some awkward bad habits. It needs to find some new ones fast, or the next decades will be a period of turmoil and decline.