EuropeDawn breaks on new era in EU-Russia relations An EU focussed on itself currently lacks appetite for enlargement. That's why relations with Russia might enter a new era By Fyodor Lukyanov
GlobalCan multilateralism survive the Sino-American rivalry? In great-power rivalries, international organisations need to facilitate cooperation toward specifically defined goals By Ngaire Woods
Foreign and security policyRussia's Iranian stakes Why Moscow will not take part in placing Iran under more pressure. A Russian perspective on the nuclear dispute By Andrey Baklitskiy
Latin AmericaA bad deal? Civil society looks at the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement as a defeat, not a victory — and now France threatens to block it By Susanne Stollreiter
GlobalTrump hands China an easy win How the the US president’s tough rhetoric in the trade war plays into Chinese economic nationalism By Kevin Rudd
GlobalWhy the West needs the UN With hopes for a liberal peace fading, the West’s best option is to return to the UN’s collective security system By Michael von der Schulenburg
EuropeEU-Belarus relations have hit a wall Ten years after the launch of the Eastern Partnership, Minsk and Brussels look at an underwhelming track record By
Middle East/North AfricaA twisted game The US pushes Europe to designate the Lebanese Hizbollah as a terrorist organisation. But this only serves to pressure Iran By Heiko Wimmen
EuropePlaying by your own rules Why Europe should have long stopped selling arms to the Near and Middle East By Herbert Wulf
Interviews'Civil war is possible' Left-wing intellectual Edgardo Lander on the political crisis in Venezuela, the role of the US and the left's failure to learn
