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Mexico’s violence spikes again
During his election campaign, the current president of Mexico promised voters a “moral renewal” and public security improvement. More than one year later, the administration of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has made no dent in Mexico’s steadily worsening violence, which is the unexpected result of the government’s successful assault on the largest, most dangerous crime groups some years ago.
Opinion: Scenarios for Turkey’s role in NATO
Turkey’s political behavior poses problems for NATO, of which it is an important member. Until recently, the country was a formidable partner of the Western alliance in its confrontation with the Soviet Union and a buffer against threats from the Middle East. Turkey still fields the alliance’s second-largest army, after ...
Europe’s strategic future in global competition, Part 2
With responsibility for European security devolving onto individual countries, an old question from the 1950s has resurfaced: What about Germany? One proposed answer is the revival of a European Army, which would allow the German military to be strengthened in a politically unthreatening fashion. However, this project is out of ...
Europe’s strategic future in global competition, Part 1
Defense does not rank these days very highly in Europe’s political discourse. Yet with multilateral structures increasingly ineffective and the attitude of the United States ever more ambivalent, its European partners need to find their own solutions. Simply waiting out a period of global turbulence is not an option.
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