How Europe has learned to live with great-power politics.

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Trump and Putin are backing different players in a contested country, Ani Chkhikvadze writes.

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Resilience, technology, and European support have put Russia on the back foot.

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In a new memoir, Nobel laureate Herta Müller condemns her homeland for failing to reconcile with history.

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An example—albeit an imperfect one—of how to achieve a lasting peace.

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Like Nixon before him, Trump is learning that the madman theory sounds better in theory than in practice, writes Daniel W. Drezner.

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The small Baltic country has refashioned the relationship between citizens and the state for the current moment.

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The Russian President has another problem brewing in the background—one that could produce serious instability at a time when he can least afford it, writes FP’s Christian Caryl.

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What history can and cannot explain about today’s unraveling order.

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This week in FP’s Latin America Brief: The new economics of Brazilian soccer, changing Cuban migration patterns, and a far-right surge in Colombia’s presidential elections.

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The oil and gas price spikes that followed the start of the U.S.-Iran war are reshaping energy politics across the global south, argue Nigel Purvis and Assaad Razzouk.

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Trump is willing to play the madman to the hilt when confronting smaller and weaker actors. But he is quick to suddenly revert to a more sane bargaining posture when confronting a more powerful actor, writes Daniel W. Drezner.

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World Brief: Russia rejects Ukraine’s offer of in-person peace talks, six Balkan countries seek European Union membership, and the United States imposes sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.