The Age of Strategic Shocks
Two seminal crises hit the Western world five years ago. In August 2008, the years-long tensions between Moscow and Tbilisi culminated in a full-scale conventional military attack against Georgia by...
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Special edition • May 2013
The Strategic Landscape, Europe and Challenges Ahead
The central question of this year’s LMC will be whether a North-South split has emerged within Europe and what its economic and security implications might...
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On Europe Past, Present and Future
The European project becomes more and more technocratic and further and further away from the people. Voters do not feel that they are part of the project. They are missing a vision and big new...
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Collision of Illusions: the West and the Middle East
Geopolitics rely on a combination of factors that are not necessarily determined by geography but rather by the components and priorities of national...
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