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Preparing for the long war
By Mark Leonard - Oct 15,2022
BERLIN  —  A nuclear specter is haunting Europe once again.
Ukraine's war viewed from China
By Mark Leonard - Jul 31,2022
BEIJING  —  Is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine merely the first in a series of conflicts that will make Europe seem more like the Middle East in the coming years?
The European war project
By Mark Leonard - Jul 03,2022
BERLIN  —  For seven decades, European integration has been driven by the quest for peace. But since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Europe has found itself unifying in response to war.
The decline and fall of Davos man
By Mark Leonard - May 31,2022
BERLIN  —  “Davos Man” has had a grim 14 years. The late Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington popularised the term in 2004 to describe a new overclass of evangelists for globalisation.
Who makes the rules in the age of unpeace?
By Mark Leonard - May 13,2022
Mark Leonard Say More…Project Syndicate (PS): In December, you predicted that the “defining fights of the twenty-first century will be about who has the power to make the rules.” With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this seems prescient.
Europe's soft-power problem
By Mark Leonard - May 08,2022
BERLIN — The Ukraine crisis shows that the European Union has a problem with power. While its hard-power deficit has recently moved to the centre of attention, its philosophical and political shortcomings are an even bigger concern.
Will Putin unite Europe?
By Mark Leonard - Feb 20,2022
BERLIN  —  A twenty-first-century war in Europe is no longer unthinkable.
The rule-maker race
By Mark Leonard - Jan 02,2022
BERLIN — Will the West remain committed to the rules-based international order when it is no longer the one making the rules? That will be one of the most intriguing questions of the next two decades.
The connectivity war
By Mark Leonard - Dec 04,2021
BERLIN — Many observers have long assumed that the future of geopolitics will be decided in a sea battle over the Taiwan Strait or some rocky outcropping or atoll in the South China Sea.
Why COP26 will fail
By Mark Leonard - Nov 03,2021
BERLIN — The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) now underway in Glasgow might conclude with a big international agreement.

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