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On March 20, The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) published at its web-site an article Would You Fight for Your Country?
Would You Fight for Your Country?
A report by German Marshall Fund analysts, entitled A Transatlantic Tech Partnership, analyzes the IT technology standoff between the USA and China and Europe’s groping for a place in this race.
An Illusion of Managed Interdependence. A Transatlantic Tech Partnership
Migrant workers play an essential, if not primary, role in the agrifood sector
Migrant Workers and Farming Will They Get a Decent Living and Employment?
French President Emmanuel Macron made a milestone statement in his recent speech about nuclear deterrence. For the first time in history he offered to deploy the French strategic air forces to European countries.
No More Safe Places in Europe? What Is the Logic Behind French Forward Deterrence?
The Belgian town of Berlaymont with the headquarters of the European Commission, the European Union’s supreme executive authority, and the Glass Palace from which the NATO bloc is managed are just five kilometers apart.
Between the Berlaymont and the Glass Palace How Relative is the EU’s and NATO’s European Defense Capability?
European governments have announced ambitions to significantly build up their military space assets in the context of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war and Europe’s overdependence on the United States in the space domain.
The European Union Intends to Fight Space Wars. Does the European Military Space Project Have Room for Development?
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism.
Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism
You can’t quarrel with Russia and the USA at once and cherish a hope for some mythical ‘cavalry from behind the hill’ that will come and help. It is not cavalry that will come but people accustomed to surviving in deserts and wastelands – into which Europe will inevitably turn without an industry and agriculture of its own. For the sake of its own survival.
Oil? Gas? Fertilizer? Just Life.
A permanent citizens’ forum as the fourth branch of governance in the European Union should give citizens greater influence over European politics. This is the argument put forward by the French-Greek-British professor of international relations Kalypso Nicolaidis.
Kalypso Nicolaidis: I Want a Woodstock for European Politics
France has put forward perhaps the most important defense initiative in many years. The country offers its nuclear deterrence capability to several European partners at once.
From a Nuclear Umbrella, There’s Just One Step to a Nuclear Big Stick What is the Essence of France’s Nuclear Proposal and How Will It Affect European Autonomy?
An article entitled Energiepreis-Schock: Was eine resiliente Energiewende leisten muss, dealing with the challenges of the energy transition amid soaring energy prices, was posted on the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s website on 13 March.
An Energy Price Shock: What an Efficient Energy Transition Should Achieve
On 12 March, an article entitled The Iran War: A Test Case for Germany’s Credibility by David Jalilvand and Stefan Meister, working for the German Council on Foreign Relations, was posted on the website of the Internationale Politik Quarterly journal. It discusses Germany’s issues and opportunities in connection with the U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran.
The Iran War: A Test Case for Germany’s Credibility