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 German chancellor's recent speech, at a campaign stop near Munich, in which she called on Europeans to "take our fate into our own hands," did not amount to a rejection of Europe's transatlantic a… read more
In all likelihood, French voters will elect the centrist Emmanuel Macron as their next president on May 7. But the strong showing for anti-establishment candidates in the election's first round should… read more
A military conflict on the Korean Peninsula would carry incalculable regional and global risks, and could even precipitate a larger clash among nuclear-armed great powers. Ultimately, a joint US-Chine… read more
Any hope that the demands of office, or political and economic realities, would persuade US President Donald Trump to adhere to political and foreign-policy norms should now be cast aside as wishful t… read more
US President Donald Trump seems intent on calling into question, if not rejecting altogether, the alliances and security guarantees upon which the international order is founded. That is why Germany a… read more
President-elect Donald Trump has already undermined the credibility of America's longstanding security guarantee for Europe. The EU should now shore up what it can with respect to NATO and its own int… read more
The new course US President-elect Donald Trump will chart for his country is already discernible; we just don’t know how quickly the ship will sail. But we should not harbor any illusions: Europe is t… read more
It is absurd to think that Europe’s historic nation-states are an answer to the globalized realities of the twenty-first century. The most important global decisions in this century will not be made d… read more
The presidencies of Donald Trump in the US and Marine Le Pen in France, together with a rightward shift in Germany that removes Chancellor Angela Merkel, could render the Western world unrecognizable.… read more
