The Globalist

The three candidates to succeed Angela Merkel as German Chancellor are woefully unprepared to deal with geopolitical pressures.

As the long-time German chancellor completes her last term in office, it isn’t just her own center-right party that is struggling at the polls.

If Germany’s CDU had used an executive search firm to find a successor for Angela Merkel as Chancellor, it would have probably come up with an intriguing proposition.

Reflections on the need to guard against the false prophets of making hay out of the current situation by effectively doing China’s bidding inside Europe, especially inside Germany.

The EU’s foreign policy approaches to Iran and Afghanistan demonstrate the challenges for the world’s middle powers.

The British Prime Minister resorts to an age-old political ploy of UK politics, blaming the French.

How Israel’s new foreign minister deprives Central European nations of moral cover

Erdogan’s decision to withdraw Turkey from the 2011 Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combatting Violence Against Women is despicable

How the ouster of a reform-oriented energy sector CEO is a microcosm of Ukraine’s battle to become a Western country.

Pope Francis is taking all the right steps to end the deep-rooted corruption in the Vatican. Will he be successful?