From my bookshelf | 24.05.2022 Will traditional wars become rarer? While the war in Ukraine brutally illustrates the costs of conventional warfare, non-military means are gaining a strategic role in conflicts
From my bookshelf | 29.06.2021 The future of Europe is here Even though there is much to criticise about the EU, Geert Mak’s 'The Dream of Europe', shows that we have come a long way
Europe | 04.12.2019 A truly geopolitical EU Commission? Rather than playing geopolitical games itself, von der Leyen’s Commission should be critical of the very notion of geopolitics
Til politics do us part A decade after civil unions, Italy still doesn’t allow same-sex marriage — a sign of a political system unable to keep pace with its own society
The cost of freedom When imperialist dictators are going to war, a security policy devoted to deterrence and defence capability is not conservative but social democratic
Amid nothing going right, Austrians lean far-left By focusing on former non-voters, the Communist Party has gained considerably in recent elections. The Social Democrats should draw their lessons