VIENNA: For a European these days, thinking about the future is disturbing. America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized, and financially indebted. The European Union seems on the brink of collapse, and many non-Europeans view the old (...)
SOFIA: The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's withdrawal from the Treaty of Conventional Forces, its deliberate efforts to block the election monitoring of the Organization for Security and (...)
SOFIA: The Balkans is the European Union's untold success story. The EU's commitment to bringing the region within its borders remains firm. In September, Catherine Ashton, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, succeeded in breaking the (...)
SOFIA: The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia has emerged out of the war as a born-again 19th-century power determined to challenge the (...)
