Center on the United States and Europe

FILE PHOTO: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur Region, Russia April 12, 2022. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS

Belarus has good reason for concern over Putin’s nuclear intimidation

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron, candidate for the re-election in the 2022 French presidential election, speaks during a campaign rally, in Marseille, France, April 16, 2022. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo

France’s election shouldn’t have been this close

Monday, April 18, 2022

A Ukrainian soldier carries Russian weapons captured during a battle between Ukrainian and Russian forces outside Kharkiv, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, Ukraine, March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

What is Ukraine’s best security guarantee?

Tuesday, April 12, 2022

A service member of pro-Russian troops stands on the ruins of an apartment building destroyed during Ukraine-Russia conflict in the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine March 30, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Russia-Ukraine: A negotiated settlement will be difficult

Thursday, March 31, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden and European Council President Charles Michel shake hands, during a European Union leaders summit, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

The US-Europe trans-Atlantic partnership is showing its resilience

Daniel S. Hamilton

Monday, March 28, 2022

FILE PHOTO: Snow covered transfer lines are seen at the Dominion Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in Lusby, Maryland March 18, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo

Ties with Europe are America’s geo-economic base

Daniel S. Hamilton

Thursday, March 24, 2022

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the Royal Castle, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Warsaw, Poland, March 26, 2022. REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel/File Photo

Lessons for NATO from the war in Ukraine

Daniel S. Hamilton

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg holds a news conference on the eve of an extraordinary NATO defence ministers meeting, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Brussels, Belgium March 15, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna Geron

Tacit rules to avoid a NATO-Russia war

Monday, March 14, 2022

1,300 candles forming a message " No War, No Nukes !" are lit in front of the Hiroshima A-Bomb Dome at the memorial park in Hiroshima Prefecture on March 8, 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has continued a multi-pronged attack on several Ukrainian cities and issued a tactical nuclear weapon warning. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Ukraine’s nuclear threat today is nonexistent

Friday, March 4, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets visiting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Kremlin, Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday Feb 15, 2022 with the ongoing crisis at the Russian-Ukrainian border dominating the agenda. Olaf Scholz made his inaugural visit as German chancellor to Moscow on Tuesday after travelling to Ukraine to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Germany has found itself in a difficult situation regarding the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. It is both a member of NATO and an important trade partner for Russia. Berlin has repeatedly vowed its support for Ukrainian sovereignty, but has been less keen on threats of abandoning the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that would bring Russian fuel directly into Germany.

The Kremlin paints itself into a corner

Monday, February 14, 2022