The Kremlin’s Factory of Resentment
In May, a replica of a monument to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in Moscow’s Taganskaya metro station. Just like when the original was installed during Stalin’s rule, passersby ...
Tag: Cold War
Who Zelensky Is Bringing to Washington—and Why
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is coming back to the White House, and this time, he has a phalanx of European leaders backing him up. Finnish President Alexander Stubb, European Commission ...
Kissinger, Brzezinski, and the Promise of Realism
The Trump administration continues to abandon human rights and democracy as elements of its foreign policy. On July 17, Secretary of State Marco Rubio reportedly instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to ...
Why Compare the Present to the Past?
In the aftermath of the Cold War, several prominent thinkers focused their minds on the shape of the world to come. Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” (1989), Samuel Huntington’s ...
The End of Modernity
This year, Europe celebrated the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II and the beginning of what came next. The declaration of Austrian independence on April 27, 1945, ...
The Seabed Is Now a Battlefield
The rules-based global order is under siege at sea. For most of the past century, U.S. naval superiority has bolstered the cooperative maritime security framework needed to build a prosperous ...
Putin Is a Gambler, not a Grand Master
After centuries of trying to catch up with the West, Russia is now using its influence to reshape the politics of Western countries and erode their foundational commitment to the ...
East Berlin’s Last Punks Are Moving West
BERLIN—The energy of the three-day Fem Punk festival at KvU, eastern Berlin’s oldest punk club, was conspicuously upbeat, despite the circumstances. The beloved haunt of three generations of Berlin anarcho-outsiders ...
