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Without a second thought

Why Germany’s premature decision against military intervention in Syria harms the whole of European foreign policy

Pexels / Markus Spiske

Winning the war of ‘Likes’

As the internet is changing war, war is also changing the internet – and we are caught in the middle

By Peter W. Singer

Wikimedia Commons / Federal government of the United States

Germany shouldn't learn to love the bomb

The current debate about Germany developing nuclear weapons is as wrong as it was in 1957

By Tobias Fella

Reuters

Social cohesion à la Macron

Is a compulsory civic service the right way forward to prevent the disintegration of a society?

By Stefan Dehnert

EPA

NATO’s 2 per cent fetish

Europe shouldn’t listen to Trump: defence spending needs to be based on sound strategy, not on an arbitrary figure

By Herbert Wulf

EPA

A different kind of battle

Why we are wrong to apply a Cold War prism to the current global power struggle

By Reinhard Krumm

EPA

Over 110 candidates murdered in run-up to Mexican elections

Without a single ballot counted, it’s already clear who's the real winner in the Mexican elections - it's organised crime

By Günther Maihold

EPA

Sharing the risk

Germany expects other EU member states to follow the rules. But when it comes to its own defence spending, it thinks the rules don’t apply

By Adam Tooze and Shahin Vallée

EPA

Nuclear arms control shaken by new instability

Russia and NATO feel increasingly threatened by each other, a situation that seriously endangers decades-old arms control agreements

By Ulrich Kühn

EPA

Holding Nigeria to ransom

A second mass abduction of schoolgirls in Nigeria raises questions about the state’s ability to keep its citizens safe

By Ulrich Thum and Ugonna Obi-Emeruwa and Marvin Lantz