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Foreign and security policyNuclear dead-end Amid mounting military threats and failed diplomacy, Iran’s nuclear obsession threatens both citizens and state stability By Kourosh Ziabari
Foreign and security policyWhy Germany must engage with China With empires jostling for power, Germany’s China strategy could determine Europe’s future — if it can play the great powers against each other By Steven Langendonk, Matthew D. Stephen
Democracy and societyThe pendulum swings back The Tusk government has made Poland the security anchor of Europe. How long will the pro-EU course last? By Maria Skóra
Democracy and societyWhat progressives must relearn Freedom is not the absence of constraints, but the collective capacity to shape what comes next By Claes-Mikael Ståhl
European integrationIts never as easy as it seems Montenegro is far from perfect, but it is ready for reform. Will that be enough to become the 28th member of the EU? By Konstantin Hadži-Vuković
Interviews‘It’s actions now that count, not words’ Political scientist Stephen Walt on America’s shift toward predatory hegemony and the dangers of short-term strategic thinking
Foreign and security policyA dagger in velvet In Munich, Rubio softened the rhetoric, not the aim. Europe is still only useful if it submits By Stephen Holmes
Four lessons from four years of Russia’s invasion The world has become accustomed to terror, believes in ritual negotiations and hopes that time will solve everything. But illusions do not stop war
Nuclear dead-end Amid mounting military threats and failed diplomacy, Iran’s nuclear obsession threatens both citizens and state stability
Why Germany must engage with China With empires jostling for power, Germany’s China strategy could determine Europe’s future — if it can play the great powers against each other