Tag: alliances

When the Taliban swept back into power in August 2021, Afghanistan’s elite special operations forces were among the last holdouts. These were the final defenders, holding ground against daily Taliban ...

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, is currently the front-runner to win the country’s next presidential election in 2028, according to a recent poll. ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, brought to you by at least two different types of cold medicine as the changing weather and jet lag take their toll on ...

THE HAGUE—In the end, this year’s NATO summit will be remembered not for what its 32 members agreed on but for what they chose to avoid discussing. The headlines will ...

As Washington’s long-standing alliances take a back seat in Trump’s world, there is a strong incentive for U.S. allies in Europe and Asia to do more with each other. Until ...

European leaders are cautiously optimistic heading into the NATO summit in The Hague. In contrast to the Brussels summit in 2018, when first-time U.S. President Donald Trump berated Europeans over their ...

Europe built its post-Cold War prosperity on cheap energy from Russia, cheap goods from China, and cheap security from the United States. As we know by now, that model no ...

Europe’s enduring dependency on U.S. military capabilities is not an accidental flaw but a fundamental feature of the trans-Atlantic security architecture. Since the inception of NATO in the late 1940s, ...

The communique from the 2024 NATO summit in Washington condemned Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and clearly stated that “Russia remains the most significant and direct threat to Allies’ security.” ...

Hello from The Hague, and welcome to this special edition of Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. We are officially on the ground for this year’s NATO summit, which kicks off on ...