David Harrison is a lawyer, former diplomat and speechwriter, author of several books on European economic and financial questions and a member of the Institut Jean Monnet. The most important news ...

Evgeny Antonov is a journalist and analyst based in Riga. He focuses on issues facing the Baltic States, Europe's strategic security challenges, the war in Ukraine, and the situation in Russia. He was ...

Marcus Schneider heads the FES regional project for peace and security in the Middle East, based in Beirut, Lebanon. Previously, he worked for the FES as head of the offices in Botswana and Madagascar ...

With the disappointment of the 2023 counteroffensive and the shift to a brutal attritional war, the mood has darkened in the pro-Ukrainian information space. The West’s dramatic isolation over the ...

The war has strained global supply chains — from semiconductors to car parts. This calls for policies to mitigate disruptions and increase resilience The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not only ...

With climate change, geopolitical interests now compete in the Arctic for raw materials, trade routes and military bases ...

Mordecai Kurz is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the author of The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age (Columbia University Press, 2023) and ...

Those navigating between different realities and discourses amidst the Israel-Hamas conflict and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza are frequently left speechless. In Germany, politics and the media ...

As polarisation deepens, the rise of populism seems unstoppable. But focusing on shared values and local solidarity may just save democracy ...

Sven Biscop teaches at the University of Ghent and heads the Europe in the World programme at Egmont — Royal Institute for International Relations in Brussels. He is the author of This Is Not a New ...

Read this article in German or Russian. In a series of books, and especially in Antifragile, Nassim Taleb has introduced an important concept — that of being antifragile, referring to ‘things that ...

Read this article in German. In 1990, Nobel-prize winning economist Amartya Sen stated that ‘more than 100 million women are missing.’ What exactly did he mean by ‘missing’ here? Girls become ‘missing ...