Joschka Fischer was German Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor from 1998-2005, a term marked by Germany's strong support for NATO's intervention in Kosovo in 1999, followed by its opposition to the war in Iraq. Fischer entered electoral politics after participating in the anti-establishment protests of the 1960s and 1970s, and played a key role in founding Germany's Green Party, which he led for almost two decades.
The European Union emerged from a triumphant period of Western liberal internationalism that now appears to be in retreat, alongside the peace and order it once safeguarded. At a time when Europe need… read more
We do not need a victory by Donald Trump in the US, or by National Front leader Marine Le Pen in next year’s French presidential election, to know where the nationalism underlying the Brexit vote lead… read more
In 1916, in the middle of World War I, Great Britain and France signed a secret pact in London, negotiated by the diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, that has determined the fate and poli… read more
Of all the crises facing the EU, the most dangerous may be the crisis of trust that has taken root in many of its member states. Without a renewed vision for Europe, the nationalist forces that have t… read more
A clash of values will almost certainly continue to define relations between Europe and Turkey. But, as has been true for a century, much more – both sides’ fundamental security interests – will be in… read more
Like the British, many Continental Europeans are asking whether transnational regulation by Brussels-based institutions and a political union are actually necessary. Wouldn’t a loose association of so… read more
The international order forged in the fires of the twentieth century seems to be disappearing. For Europe, in particular, will the decline of Pax Americana, which has served for seven decades as a gua… read more
What accounts for the rise in rich countries of right-wing populists like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen? First and foremost, there is the fear that the “White Man’s World” – a lived reality assumed b… read more
The war in Syria has become a tangled conflict of local, regional, and global struggles, each with the potential for perilous escalation. But, while the war must be brought to an end as quickly as pos… read more
