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A coalition of the willing on European defence takes shape
By Tetyana Malyarenko and Stefan Wolff
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Stefan Wolff
And the winner is…Vladimir Putin?
If there were international affairs Oscars in the category of biggest return for least investment, then the Russian president would have won hands down…
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Stefan Wolff
Leaving Washington without a deal, has Zelensky gambled away Ukraine's future?
The visit of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House on February 28, 2025, has not gone to plan.
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February 2025

Trump is not trying to appease Putin – he is building a dangerous new world order
There has been much and justified focus on the implications of a likely deal between US president Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir…
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Europe may be willing to invest in its security, but is it able to do so?
The last week has left European leaders in little doubt that they will be mostly on their own when it comes to providing security guarantees to Ukraine…
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Stefan Wolff
The US is pushing Europe to the brink
European leaders are scrambling to respond to what looks like the end of reliable US protection of the continent.
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Election interference: how Putin and Musk are weakening European democracies
In an unprecedented decision on 6 December 2024, the Romanian constitutional court annulled the November 25 presidential elections after it received…
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Trump’s Gaza takeover plan will doom the two-state solution and imperil his own America-first Middle East policy
Donald Trump never fails to surprise.
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In a Trumpian world, Europe needs to assume greater responsibility for its own defence
Three weeks before the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, EU leaders came together for their first-ever meeting solely…
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Stefan Wolff

January 2025

Trump’s vision of a peace deal for Ukraine looks increasingly just like a plan for a ceasefire
We are now well beyond the 24 hours that Donald Trump had promised it would take him to secure an end to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
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Stefan Wolff
What Trump wants in Latin America isn’t just the Panama Canal
Even before taking office for his second term in the White House, Donald Trump gave some very clear indications of a renewed focus of American foreign…
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Stefan Wolff
Trump signals how he will start pushing for a new world order in his first 100 days
Donald Trump’s return to the White House on January 20, 2025, is widely seen as ushering in a period of significant upheaval for US foreign policy, and…
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