Center on the United States and Europe
Thomas Wright
Director - Center on the United States and Europe
Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy
Alina Polyakova
David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe
Fascism: A conversation with Madeleine Albright and Strobe Talbott
No friends, no enemies? Trans-Atlantic relations after Trump’s Europe trip
Who won Turkey? Implications from Erdoğan’s snap elections
Free speech shouldn’t be a partisan issue, but it has been drawn into the larger dynamics of polarization in this country.
Turkey does have an image problem in Washington. These problems cannot be fixed by a public relations campaign, but require action by the Turkish government.
Germany now finds itself in the worst security dilemma since it rejoined the West in the 1950s by becoming a member of NATO and the EU. Its hoped-for strategic partners, Russia and China, are increasingly aggressive players in Europe. Within the EU, populists and authoritarians are challenging the liberal, postwar consensus. Even countries that share that ideal, such as France, Spain and the Baltic states, disagree about the future of the European project. America’s elites stand firm in defense of U.S. security guarantees for Europe — but their president misses no opportunity to side with autocrats and show contempt for a rules-based order.