Europe

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during a ceremony by the National Program of Civic-Military Schools, at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil November 24, 2021. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino

The awkward guests: Parsing the Summit for Democracy invitation list

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA - DECEMBER 3, 2021: Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen in his office in the Kremlin as he chairs a videoconference meeting of permanent members of the Russian Security Council. Mikhail Metzel/POOL/TASS.

What Biden should say to Putin on Ukraine

Monday, December 6, 2021

Display of books published by Brookings Foreign Policy in 2021.

20 Brookings Foreign Policy books for 2021

Ted Reinert and McCall Mintzer

Thursday, December 2, 2021

Polish police officers stand guard at Bruzgi-Kuznica checkpoint on the Belarusian-Polish border, as seen from the Grodno region, Belarus, November 22, 2021. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

When security in Europe conflicts with democracy in Poland

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz welcome NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the German government guesthouse Meseberg Palace in Meseberg, Germany, April 10, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Nuclear weapons debate in Germany touches a raw NATO nerve

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, November 19, 2021

A traveller arrives at Heathrow Airport Terminal 3, following the lifting of restrictions on the entry of non-U.S. citizens to the United States imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in London, Britain, November 8, 2021. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

Travel is resuming, but not for everyone

Monday, November 8, 2021

Migrants gather at a detention center at Ain Zara, in Tripoli, Libya October 12, 2021. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed

Libya’s migrants and crimes against humanity

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan for a working lunch at the Chateau de Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, September 15, 2021. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

France and the UAE: A deepening partnership in uncertain times

Adel Abdel Ghafar and Silvia Colombo

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Berlin, Germany.- German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (left) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (right) attend a meeting of European Union defense ministers in Berlin, Germany on August 26, 2020. The meeting discusses missions and operations and the situation in Belarus and the eastern Mediterranean.

The world won’t wait for Germany’s coalition negotiators

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Thursday, October 14, 2021

A woman wearing a mask as a preventive measure against the spread of covid-19 walks past Souvenir shops.Poland is now passing for the second wave of Coronavirus and life continues under restrictive measures such as the closure of stores inside shopping malls, gatherings with a maximum of 5 people, bars and restaurants operating on a take away. Poland has registered more than one million COVID-19 infections and the death toll above 25000. (Photo by Omar Marques / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

How COVID-19 policy responses differed in Central Europe

Leonardo Iacovone, Natasha Kapil, Lukasz Marek Marc, Giovanna Marcolongo, Ilias Skamnelos, and Gallina A. Vincelette

Monday, October 11, 2021