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The return of nuclear thinking

The US's planned withdrawal from the INF Treaty threatens to trigger a new nuclear arms race in Europe

Reuters

For a left-wing security policy

Instead of leaving the topic to the right, left-wingers need to talk about local and global security

By Katharina Hofmann

Reuters

Ukraine and Russia clash in the Black Sea

Marcel Röthig in Kiev on the question whether the confrontation will escalate after Ukraine's decision to impose martial law

By Marcel Röthig

Reuters

A new nuclear arms race has begun

The US withdrawal from the INF Treaty puts the whole post-WWII foundation for peace and security at risk

By Mikhail Gorbachev

Reuters

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