Summary Over the past decade, Russia has re-entrenched itself in Libya, making the country the main hub of its African operations It has used three opportunistic processes: “cultivation” (seeding proxies),

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This week, Mark Leonard hosts an expert panel to dive into Europe’s evolving relationships with Asia amid the uncertainties of the Trump administration. Joining from Berlin is Janka Oertel, head

Two events, one week apart, reveal a troubling pattern. On 14th February, US vice president J.D. Vance launched an assault on the EU at the Munich Security Conference, followed by

This week, Mark Leonard joins forces with Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR’s director of research and US programme director, to unpack two momentous geopolitical disruptions. First, a stunning scandal emerged from a

Sand eels are not even eels. They are long, thin fish, useful to humans only to produce fishmeal. But puffins and kittiwakes love them; and in view of these birds’

Summary The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar have longstanding political and security interests in north and east Africa. But the late 2010s saw a “geoeconomic turn” in their foreign policy.

This week, Mark Leonard welcomes Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, associate senior policy fellow for ECFR’s Wider Europe programme and visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, to discuss the dramatic arrest of Istanbul’s

In Hungarian politics, few things are as predictable as Viktor Orban’s annual State of the Nation speech. It is a must-watch event, not necessarily because it offers new grand visions—although