The final ingredient in eastern Europe’s illiberal turn is the deep current of geopolitical insecurity that has always afflicted the region. In 1946, the Hungarian intellectual Istvan Bibo published a ...

Back in the 1920s, Polish strongman Jozef Pilsudski argued that Europe's peace depended on what he called "the Intermarium" (Miedzymorze in Polish), a semi-periphery of buffer states running ...

Eastern Europe has more than triple the number of U.S. women ranked in the top 50 and nearly double the number of men. Sixteen men and women made the quarterfinals of the Australian Open this year.

NATO has afforded the United States the legitimacy to militaristically intervene abroad, most notably in the case of Libya in 2011. ... NATO Membership Was Popular in Eastern Europe.

Stop driving Europe away from the United States, dismayed central and eastern European officials fumed on Tuesday as French President Emmanuel Macron’s comments continued to ripple across the ...

Eastern Europe's biggest country is also seeking to boost defence spending to near 5% of GDP and recently launched a recruitment campaign dubbed “Holidays With the Army”, which provides basic ...

After the Berlin Wall fell, few states wanted to identify as ‘Eastern European.’ But the region has a rich and vital common history.

Of course, both the United States and Europe have a lot of leverage over Kyiv. The EU’s total military and financial commitments to Ukraine exceed $90 billion. The United States comes in second ...

Eastern Europe’s New Geopolitical Fault Lines. July 8, 2016. By: Scott B. MacDonald. Share. ... For other countries, such as the Baltic states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, ...

FAIOLA: NATO countries in Eastern Europe — Latvia, other Baltic states, Poland — have been warning for years about a growing Russian threat. Do you believe the West didn’t listen? Advertisement ...

After the Cold War, NATO and the EU opened their doors to central and eastern Europe, making the continent safer and freer than ever before. Today, NATO and the EU must articulate a new rationale for ...