The Globalist

By The Globalist, July 24, 2017

Nineteen countries worldwide devote a larger share of their economies to defense spending than the United States.

By The Globalist, July 24, 2017

Most global defense spending increases tend to benefit US-based firms by default.

By Michael J. Brenner, July 23, 2017

How can one stop the dangerous perpetuation of an unrealistic conception of America’s place in the world?

By Stephan Richter and Bill Humphrey, July 22, 2017

Where Donald Trump is undisciplined and entertaining, Mike Pence is very disciplined and boring. But that discipline will not benefit the Americans at large.

By Alon Ben-Meir, July 21, 2017

There is no military solution to the war in Afghanistan. The solution to the debacle lies with the Afghan tribes.

By Robert M. Cassidy, July 20, 2017

America and its military's proclivity for perpetual war – and what that means for the war against Islamist terrorists.

By Alon Ben-Meir, July 19, 2017

If the Israelis and the Palestinians learned to live in peace, it would usher in a renaissance the likes of which has never been seen before.

By Frank Vogl, July 18, 2017

There is no “smoking gun” yet.

By Daniel Stelter, July 17, 2017

Germany’s over-dependence on its automotive industry will be its undoing.

By Valbona Zeneli, July 16, 2017

Pessimism is real, but scapegoating the EU for the slow transformation of the Western Balkans is unfair.

By Valbona Zeneli, July 15, 2017

What does the EU mean to people in the Western Balkans?

By Jean-Francois Boittin, July 14, 2017

A message to the American President as he heads to France.

By Frank Vogl, July 13, 2017

Lula’s sentence is a signal to all of Latin America that justice can prevail. From Mexico to the tip of Argentina, corruption has pervaded politics for decades. Now is the time to fix it for good.

By Michael J. Brenner, July 13, 2017

The Grenfell Tower tragedy is a classic “what have we become” moment.

By Stephan Richter, July 12, 2017

Blaming Putin cannot cover up the noxious combination of collective U.S. amnesia and the transparent shift of accountability for the proper conduct in international affairs.