Speaking on July 22, in front of an audience of Iranian diplomats, President Rouhani held out half an olive branch to the United States. “America…
Speaking on July 22, in front of an audience of Iranian diplomats, President Rouhani held out half an olive branch to the United States. “America…
In international relations, there are sometimes rare moments of opportunity that need to be grasped. This particular sequence of mid-July 2018 is one. A NATO…
President Trump will visit Europe for a NATO summit and a visit to the UK. Here is a text of what the US president should…
There has been a lot of hand wringing about Trump giving up the USA’s leading role guaranteeing the global world order and abandoning the rules-based…
What is democracy, I wonder? Everyone bandies the word around. In the Brexit debate, some believe that anything but a hard Brexit would be undemocratic…
In this article for Comment Central, Joe Zammit-Lucia and Robert McDougall argue that Europe is playing with fire in choosing to escalate the trade war…
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Behind the farce of the G-7 summit of June 8-9 in Canada, is a tragedy, less publicised, but with much more serious and real consequences….
After many vicissitudes, the America-North Korea summit seems to be happening on Tuesday, June 12, in Singapore. Diplomats from both countries are already on hand…
A diplomatic meeting of crucial importance for the future of the European Union (EU) as a political entity was held in Brussels on Tuesday (yesterday)….
Sovereignty. Not many of us used that word before the Brexit referendum campaign. Now it’s on everyone’s lips. But that doesn’t do much to help…
It’s a bad deal. It’s the best deal we’re likely to get. These are essentially the positions being taken by the US and Europe respectively…