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Europe’s High Noon

BERLIN – Democracies tend to struggle with security challenges. That was the context that led W.H. Auden to call the 1930s a “low dishonest...

Harold James

BERLIN – Since global financial stability ought to be considered a public good, many international institutions devote themselves to establishing...

BERLIN – Public opinion about the world today is oddly bifurcated. Big industrial economies, including China, are gripped by a generalized mood of...

PRINCETON – The year 2023 ended on a sour, cheerless note, with looming elections in 2024 intensifying fears about the fate of democracy and the...

BERLIN – The recent worldwide surge of inflation is forcing political change, reminding us how efficiently this old economic problem can topple...

BERLIN – We are inching ever closer to the first global conflict of the post-Cold War era. Two certainties that kept the Cold War world stable...

BERLIN – Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, German politicians have been on an apology tour for their country’s past reliance on Russian...