Munich Security Conference | Watching America

Ireland: The Irish Times View on the Trump-Putin Call: from Pax Americana to Terra Incognita

Rejeanne Lacroix - February 14, 2025. Published in Irish Times

Ukraine: How Ukraine Could Join NATO and What To Expect from Trump

Lalatendu Das - March 27, 2024. Published in The New Voice of Ukraine

Supporting Ukraine is a good thing from a U.S. perspective.

Ukraine: Let’s Be Realists: Let’s Demand the Impossible

Lalatendu Das - June 22, 2023. Published in The New Voice of Ukraine

Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin insisted that Ukraine get rid of its nuclear arms.

Russia: Illusion-Free World*

Robin Koerner - February 25, 2023. Published in Izvestia

It is time to stop deceiving Ukrainians, who have to pay for this illusion with their own lives.

Spain: Unity of the West against Russia*

Robin Koerner - February 20, 2022. Published in La Vanguardia

Germany: Why the EU and US Will Continue To Butt Heads

Mallory Matsumoto - March 5, 2021. Published in Frankfurter Rundschau

[O]ne welcomes the fact that the U.S. ... wants to reassume a constructive role internationally and end Donald Trump’s destructive policies.

Russia: America Is Back

Jeffrey Fredrich - March 3, 2021. Published in Novaya Gazeta

[T]he forces of good, freedom and democracy must act in solidarity and rein in the forces of tyranny in peacetime, without waiting for war.

India: Rousing Rhetoric

Lalatendu Das - February 27, 2021. Published in The Statesman

While President Biden spoke on a host of issues, his focus was clearly on China which is increasingly being seen as an existential threat to the West ~ to its values and its institutions.

United Arab Emirates: America Is Back, but It’s Late to the Party

Lalatendu Das - February 25, 2021. Published in The National

The U.S. president’s emphasis on democracy – he mentioned the word four times – missed a trick.

Canada: The Clouds of Munich

Robin Koerner - February 25, 2020. Published in Le Devoir

[F]acing a growing number of serious strategic questions, Europeans and North Americans appear to be out of the game in 2020.

France: The Bad Example of American Democracy

Robin Koerner - February 25, 2020. Published in Le Monde

Donald Trump never fails to test the limits of the American political system or ceases to undermine it.

Germany: Europe Caught in a Pincer Grip

Robin Koerner - February 21, 2020. Published in Süddeutsche Zeitung

Europeans will have to make an effort to find common cause with the very U.S. that has rejected the idea of an international community.

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