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NATO Foreign Ministers meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on December 4, 2018. Photo

Britain’s EU departure could be used to transform the future of NATO as well as improve the UK’s relationship with the United States.

With international institutions being questioned—ironically, by the very nations that created them—NATO’s next seventy years will be a rougher ride than the first seventy.

The organization was never designed to enforce a political order in its members.

Seventy years ago, a creative British foreign secretary was instrumental in forming the Atlantic alliance. Now the UK’s leadership is needed again.

NATO members meet the spending target. Commentators argue that for NATO to survive, the allies

NATO allies who did not reach the 2% goal for defence spending, which would have

Despite significant financial expenditure and thousands of lives lost, a fundamental shift in policy remains unimaginable at present.

Panellists discuss the future role of democracy and human rights in America’s foreign policy.

This discussion considers how philosophically aligned the EU and the US currently are, and how important this alignment is in ensuring a fruitful relationship.

The identity of the next US president is yet to be determined, but the foreign policy views of the American public are already clear. In principle, Americans support US engagement in the world but, in practice, they worry other countries take advantage of the United States.

What difference can an election make? A range of leading experts consider the most pressing foreign policy challenges for the next US president, and examine how the outcome of the 2020 election will affect these. 

The European Union’s decision to sign an investment accord makes it clear that China’s geopolitical heft and allure of trade and investment are tempting.

NATO summit was taking place in London in early December, I was in Japan, which

NATO that it might be obsolete and that Brexit is a very good thing, then

NATO rhetoric are clear evidence that an appeal to ‘us against them’ sentiment

NATO was ‘brain dead’, no longer able to deliver a coordinated response. Instead

NATO’s “brain death” brought a jolt because of its resonance, not despite

NATO. Most provocatively, in 2004, the Bush administration pushed the Western alliance to incorporate three

NATO). Yet, Pompeo’s efforts at steering Italian foreign policy in a direction more

Joe Biden aims to protect democratic values far beyond America’s shores and also strike principled, but pragmatic deals on climate and public health.

A greater emphasis from Britain on its global role over its European role could be a risk, but the Biden administration can help steer a balance.