Putin is not the geopolitical genius the world makes him out to be
Kolumn i Washington Post Occasionally, people claim that Vladimir Putin is a geopolitical player of extraordinary competence and success....
The “New” Trump’s Lopsided Foreign Policy
Publicerad på Project Syndicate After a series of foreign-policy U-turns, there is now talk of a “new” Donald Trump who is far more...
Keeping the Balkan Ghosts at Bay
Publicerad på Project Syndicate European Union leaders have suddenly awoken to new realities in the Balkans. At a recent summit, they...
Restoring Faith in Globalization
Publicerad på Project Syndicate I must confess that I am a firm believer in the benefits of globalization. To my mind, the gradual...
Why Europe was alarmed by Trump’s inaugural address
Artikel i Washington Post Was Europe in any way reassured by what we heard from President Trump in his inaugural address? Hardly. And let...
Russia's Imperial Instinct
Artikel på Project Syndicate Russia is once again at the center of policy debates in many Western capitals. And for the third time in a...
Head for the Bunkers
Artikel på Project Syndicate In August 2015, I tweeted that if Donald Trump were to be elected President of the United States, we would...
Global Stability in the Trump Era
Artikel på Project Syndicate Angry American voters who feel slighted by the Washington establishment have had their say. A stunned world...
Taking North Korea Seriously
Artikel på Project Syndicate We are living in dangerous and uncertain times. The United States is engaged in a bizarre and highly...
Europe, stand up for Turkey
Artikel i Politico Is Brussels asleep, or just ignorant? That’s the question being asked after European leaders responded tepidly to the...
Does Trump's America First policy mean Allies last?
Artikel i Washington Post There is a new Trump doctrine in foreign and security affairs emerging: be unpredictable about everything. In...
Britain at Sea
Artikel publicerad på Project Syndicate In the early 1960s, former US Secretary of State Dean Acheson famously quipped that the United...
Europe Surrounded Not by a Ring of Friends - But by a Ring of Fire
Statesman Laureate Lecture vid CSIS, Washington DC, USA To start with the obvious - it is a true honour to be invited to deliver a...
The Ukraine Crisis: What's Next for Europe?
Anförande vid Summit on the Future of Europe, Harvard University, USA A century after the catastrophe of 1914, which ended a long age of...
Anförande vid IISS Global Strategic Review 2014
Anförande i Oslo, Norge A year ago we were happy to welcome the GSR to Stockholm, and today we are equally happy to see the GSR move on...