Europe

Unconditional Western support for the incumbent prime minister could backfire.

A year ago, the Ukrainian government decided to take the fight directly to Russia. It hasn’t looked back since.

A sweeping legal history reveals how the international community failed to live up to the promises of Nuremberg.

Decision paralysis and divisions among alliance members were easy to exploit.

Freed from Viktor Orban’s veto, the bloc should expand its actions against Israeli encroachment in the West Bank.

The British prime minister’s timid reign will serve as a how-not-to guide in the exercise of power.

Recent violence exposes the flaws in the Kremlin’s mercenary security model.

Countries must prepare for the dual threat of pandemics and supply chain shocks.

Claims of cracks in the regime overlook the Russian leader’s mastery of dictatorship.

The Kremlin is gaining billions in additional oil revenue.

Facing U.S. troop withdrawal, the continent’s leaders feel less alarmed and better prepared.

Western assessments miss how economic ties have quietly advanced reconciliation.

Used to outwitting his enemies, the Russian leader is running out of room for maneuver.

Local elections this week will lay bare growing fragmentation across the United Kingdom.

Deceptive job schemes and transnational networks are pulling Kenyans into Moscow’s war.

Ukraine and its partners are holding their breath to see what’s next for Patriot air defense missile deliveries.

A new book explores the geopolitical scheming that created the blood countess legend.

A new horror film reckons with the country’s buried sins—and the women erased by them.

The Section 301 case outlined by U.S. trade officials is neither coherent nor defensible.

Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken on Hegseth, Hormuz, and NATO.

The Italian prime minister hasn’t convincingly delivered the renewal she once promised.

Belgian Defense Minister Theo Francken on Hegseth, Hormuz, and NATO’s future.

For Iran’s Sunni admirers, resistance remains the appeal.

Deals are being canceled as stockpiles run short.

Gita Gopinath on how countries can make themselves more resilient.

The fight against Russia is accomplishing what years of struggle against corruption couldn’t.

In a world of disorder, the bloc’s boring stability is suddenly attractive.

Friedrich Merz is, slowly but surely, putting his country on a new international footing.

The British monarch praises multilateral institutions in a pointed message to the Trump administration.

Kyiv is giving continent’s defense chiefs a blunt message about how to fight.

Record-low unemployment is the result of millions of missing workers.

Literature’s obsessive quest for anti-canonical adaptations pursues the white whale at its peril.

Peter Magyar must avoid reproducing the very abuses he seeks to dismantle.

Despite more colorful medieval precedents, Pope Leo’s clash with Trump reflects the Vatican’s postwar peace advocacy.

From Europe to Asia, governments are hedging against unreliable and erratic U.S. power.

Pricey oil and sanctions relief mean smiles in Moscow.

Why a global era of authoritarian governance may be coming to an end.

Rather than climate, disease, or artificial intelligence, the next secretary-general should stay focused on conflict resolution.

The war-torn country wants to reconstruct in a way that is environmentally, socially, and geopolitically more sustainable.

Our fixation with defining the emerging global order hides the true complexity of our neo-medieval moment.

Patrick Radden Keefe’s “London Falling” is a mystery that turns into a tragedy.

The Russian president’s back is to the wall. That makes him more dangerous.

The U.S. president is picking fights in every direction, alienating key supporters and allies.

With the rift over Greenland, the intergovernmental body finds itself in troubled waters again.

Today’s wars are tearing down the existing global system, but they can’t replace it.

The Indonesian president visits Moscow—and signs a U.S. defense agreement.

The continent has relevant military strengths, but little appetite for fighting.

From Jordan to Nepal, solutions to urban water woes are leaving the countryside angry and parched.

Madrid is preparing for one of the most ambitious regularization schemes in European history.

While mostly used for logistics, Ukraine is increasingly using them for combat operations.

The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.

How longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s economic record could shape Sunday’s election.

Why personality now trumps policy in global politics.

In the Iran war and beyond, Madrid has often done a better job looking out for U.S. interests than Washington.

Recent scholarship shows the promise—and limits—of a historical path not taken.

Countries are lining up for military deals with Kyiv.

The Iran war has disrupted a different, more fragile global energy system.

Britain’s plan to hand back its last African colony is on thin ice.

Iran discovered his Achilles’ heel—a market slump.

Trump’s Iran policy might undermine his one successful peace accord.

An undercover journalist travels the Volga to catch a glimpse of life under Putin.

Plus, more international fiction releases in April.

The war has empowered hard-liners, blocked a key shipping lane, and boosted Russia.

The political left has become simultaneously more mainstream and more radical.

From the president on down, many Americans still do not grasp the implications of drones and other threats.

A Kremlin-backed fintech company is linked to massive trade in dual-use goods.

Don’t overthink it. The Iran war is bad for Russia.

Indigenous knowledge is helping conservationists manage delicate ecologies.

Festering battles on the international tennis circuit have finally burst into the open.

What lesson about national solidarity will Erdogan draw from Israel and Iran?

War setbacks, protests, and internet shutdowns expose the limits of Kremlin control.

Jason Bordoff on the winners and losers from conflict in the Middle East.

Ukraine has much to teach the United States about drone defense.

Like Helsinki during the Cold War, Ottawa today is threatened by a bellicose and powerful neighbor.

Faced with another energy crisis, the continent is reaching for a form it had largely abandoned.

Even once the war ends, it will take time to get back to normal energy flows.

How Europe and the United States could end up in a healthier alliance.

A new book debates who wins wars and why.

From Ukraine to Iran, Elon Musk’s service has become an arbiter of foreign policy.

“The Museum of Innocence” is a nostalgic and unnerving adaptation of Orhan Pamuk’s work.

The Iran war has raised the stakes of the vote for the prime minister.

Cheap autonomous weapons are overturning the economics of combat—and teaching the United States important lessons.

Kyiv has valuable counterdrone expertise and technology it can offer Gulf countries. But there are hurdles.

Faced with a shortage of weapons to hit Russia, Ukrainians have developed their own.

Can the Hungarian leader’s foreign-policy distractions beat the ascendant Peter Magyar?

Despite their violent colonial past, the two nations have grown much closer in recent years.

Even as Trump wages war on Tehran, he’s reigniting his economic war against U.S. trading partners.

The bloc isn’t a geopolitical alliance, and it shouldn’t be expected to function like one.

From millionaire activists to G-20 proposals, efforts to combat wealth inequality are advancing across the United States and Europe.

Trump’s war in Iran is blowing up MAGA’s alliance with Europe’s far right.

“Membership lite” could clear the hurdles to Kyiv’s EU accession.

Despite White House claims, the EU’s human rights official argues that “democracy is thriving” on the continent.

It’s the latest case study in the persistent failure of transnational solidarity.

The German philosopher built the 20th century’s most rigorous defense of democratic reason and then watched it tested.

Leftists and nationalists are managing to completely break republicanism.

This year’s Oscar winner for best documentary offers an intimate view of Russia’s descent into fascism.

Europe’s unique political tradition is under threat—and perfectly suited for the post-liberal moment.

Plus, more international fiction releases in March.

Plenty of issues are on the ballot in this month’s mayoral election. The city’s green transition isn’t one of them.

Trump’s decision to return to the Middle East echoes the strategic folly that undid Britain.