Mr Putin’s aims are fairly transparent. Basically he wants to keep himself in power and he wants to re-assert Russia’s role as a world power…
Mr Putin’s aims are fairly transparent. Basically he wants to keep himself in power and he wants to re-assert Russia’s role as a world power…
Benjamin Netanyahu, who still leads the Israeli government, phoned Vladimir Putin to congratulate Russia on the anniversary of its May 9 1945 victory over Hitler’s…
When, on Wednesday, Joe Biden took the reins of the US Executive, his first emergency will be the fight against the consequences of the Covid-19…
An old friend of mine from school (thanks, Pete!) sent me last week a long and sophisticated post about one of the great conspiracy theories…
On 30 July, the Council of the European Union (EU) adopted sanctions – a travel ban and assets freeze – against individuals and state bodies…
It’s a pretty disconnected world. That is how an impartial observer could have summed up the spectacle of the Munich Security Conference, held on 15…
By welcoming Vladimir Putin face-to-face in Brégançon on 19 August, by restoring diplomatic realism in his speech to the Conference of Ambassadors on 27 August,…
On June 6, celebrating the 75th anniversary of their landing in Normandy, the Great Western Allied Powers had invited Germany to the festivities. But no…
The Brexit shenanigans and the turbulent politics in many other countries is almost enough to make one lose faith in democracy. Meantime, the apparent success…
By Renaud Girard in Beirut Since the start of the decade, the movement known as the ‘Arab Spring’ has represented a clash between two ideologies,…
On landing on French soil Friday, November 9, 2018, Donald Trump tweeted little for his host: “French President Macron has just suggested that Europe develops…