interview Our political elites have long yearned for authoritarianism. Or is it even more than that? Totalitarian tendencies? “In today’s Russia, people are told what to think. There is no freedom of opinion…

The Polish government is caught between its own illusions about the richness of Poland’s coal reserves and pressure from the European Union to move away from coal as quickly as possible.

interview When Vladimir Putin decided to annex Crimea, the question in Poland and the West was, “Where will Russia stop? What will be its next territorial demands?” Both then and today my answer is the same:…

In “Democracy Against Liberalism” the author argues that there are three important political spectra: democracy versus authoritarianism, liberalism versus absolutism and technocracy versus populism.…

Russia has resisted formulating its own green agenda, putting itself in a position of playing catch-up with the West. The country needs to acknowledge and incorporate the world’s inevitable energy…

Nobody knows what globalization will look like in the future, but globalization as we have understood it so far is over. Decisions made today in monetary, fiscal, energy and health sectors will…

It’s such a cliche that Americans don’t know anything about the world and don’t care about the world. A very high number of Americans have fought in wars and served abroad in the…

Central to the new German Europe strategy, as both Scholz and Baerbock have repeatedly acknowledged, will be the relationship with France, and especially President Emmanuel Macron.

The shale revolution – an unexpected phenomenon with far-reaching consequences – has been thrown into disarray by the global pandemic—an even more shocking phenomenon. But despite the serious setback…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling government party Fidesz have secured comfortable leads in the last three general elections, most of the time ruling by a 2/3 supermajority. In…