International Affairs

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock pose for a picture during a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine January 17, 2022. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Germany’s approach to Ukraine

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Jana Puglierin, Jim Townsend, and Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Brussels Sprouts

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

French President Emmanuel Macron gestures at the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Home Affairs in Tourcoing, France, February 2, 2022. Yoan Valat/Pool via REUTERS

France’s monumental months ahead

Célia Belin, Tara Varma, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, and Jim Townsend

Brussels Sprouts

Friday, January 21, 2022

Service members of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces take part in artillery drills at a shooting range in an unknown location in eastern Ukraine, in this handout picture released December 17, 2021. Picture released December 17, 2021. Press Service of the 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Russia, China, and beyond: Key U.S. foreign policy challenges

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Fred Dews

Friday, January 21, 2022

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Best of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast in 2021

Thursday, December 30, 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque: "Body language can give an ordinary photo much more meaning, and here, Trump and Putin did not disappoint." REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque SEARCH "TRUMP POY" FOR FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2018 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

Putin, Trump, and the road to authoritarianism

Fiona Hill, Angela Stent, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 12, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Avaaz activists hold a sign during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, Scotland, Britain, November 5, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo

Will COP26 in Glasgow spur progress on reducing carbon emissions?

David G. Victor and David Dollar

Monday, November 8, 2021

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 4, 2021: A boy sells water on the city streets. On August 15, the Taliban forces entered Kabul without any resistance from the government, President Ashraf Ghani fleeing the country. On September 6, the Taliban stated they had established control over the whole territory of the republic. A day later, new government members were revealed to include solely Taliban representatives and be mostly Pashtun, the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Alexandra Kovalskaya/TASSEDITORIAL USE ONLY; NO COMMERCIAL USE; NO ADVERTISING.No use Russia.

What’s going on in Afghanistan?

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Bryce Klehm, and Scott R. Anderson

The Lawfare Podcast

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Social Democratic Party (SPD) top candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz, his wife Britta Ernst, co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Norbert Walter-Borjans, German Labor Minister Hubertus Heil, Rhineland-Palatinate State Premier Malu Dreyer, Social Democratic Party (SPD) secretary general Lars Klingbeil, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, and Lower Saxony's State Premier Stephan Weil react after first exit polls for the general elections in Berlin, Germany, September 26, 2021. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Germany’s elections

Constanze Stelzenmüller and James Lindsay

The President's Inbox

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Newly elected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ministers pose for a group photo at the first meeting of the new cabinet at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany December 8, 2021. Ina Fassbender/Pool via REUTERS

An election in Germany

Constanze Stelzenmüller, Yascha Mounk, and Jacob Schulz

The Lawfare Podcast

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Newly elected German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is sworn-in by Parliament President Baerbel Bas during a session of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, Germany, December 8, 2021. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

‘It may be time for a political shift in Germany’

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Mohamed Younis

The Gallup Podcast

Thursday, September 23, 2021