Tony Brenton
Snubbing Putin at Sochi Did Not Help Ukraine
We do business with other authoritarian regimes when we need to — so the West should take illiberal Russia more seriously
Bismarck Versus Blair — A Foreign Policy Crossroads
The interventionist dam broke with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Inaction in Syria could mark the end of our duty to protect
Russia’s Teetering Toughman
Ben Judah’s rich and thoughtful account of the Putin years charts a Russian political system continually manipulated by a wounded leader
Clouds of war and strategic delusions
Britain’s strategic outlook requires realism about the kind of conflicts we are prepared and willing to fight
Search engine: why Germany's foreign policy flounders
Europe’s economic colossus is crippled by identity politics and self-obsession. It exports instability
Alliances and dalliances
“The lethal combination of the Trump administration’s “America First” approach and many European members’ complacent, cowardly and stingy approach risks making Nato irrelevant”