The American capture of Maduro is a signal event in world geopolitics. Europeans must confront three immediate dilemmas ...

Twenty months of relentless war have not destroyed Hamas—but they may have reshaped it. The group’s offensive capabilities are depleted and its leadership is in exile or in hiding. Moderate factions ...

Hungary's media landscape exists in a grey zone, where journalism's boundaries are set by the whims of regulatory power.

At this year’s Munich Security Conference, US vice president J.D. Vance asserted that Europe faces more threats from within than it does threats from China and Russia. He was correct, but perhaps not ...

Quickly bringing in the Western Balkan candidates, Ukraine and Moldova to counter Russia or China poses many dilemmas for the ...

EU enlargement is back at the top of the EU’s political agenda as Russia’s war against Ukraine has transformed it from a bureaucratic process into a matter of European security. This episode marks the ...

As the spectre of war in Ukraine looms over Europe, what individual NATO members do – or choose not to do – will have a geopolitical impact on how any conflict unfolds. When it comes to Ukraine, ...

After a year of spiralling tensions, Ethiopians and Somalis are talking again: on 11 January, Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud went to Addis Ababa to reestablish diplomatic relations. The ...

Moscow’s latest disruptive measures against Europe involve targeting cables traversing the Baltic Sea. The EU needs to bolster its deterrence posture and secure its infrastructure against such ...

A Russia-Ukraine peace deal that capitulates to Putin risks destabilising the Western Balkans, emboldening Serbian ...

Trump and Lukashenka’s new found dialogue leaves the EU in a bind. However, there is a middle ground to be found between ...

May 2025 Anatomy of a chokepoint Mapping power and conflict in the Red Sea This ECFR project maps the Red Sea region as a nexus of conflict, regional rivalries and global power plays. To address the ...