Brexit

September 29, 2021 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Biden Brags About Diplomacy. It’s All Spin.

If an ally recalls its ambassador, it’s a sign of an epic blunder.

August 21, 2020 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

New U.K. Sanctions Offer Opportunity to Narrow Transatlantic Gap on Iran

One small step for British sovereignty is amounting to one large leap for economic statecraft. In a historic, but underreported move this summer, the U.K. government issued its first tranche of penalties...

July 22, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

The U.K. Has Its Own Russia Problem

A new report highlights various schemes by Vladimir Putin.

June 4, 2020 | Cleo Paskal |

China versus the world

While America staggers from coronavirus lockdown to riot curfew, China is pushing out at sea, on its borders, in its legal claims, and in the global economy. America and its allies have begun to realize...

February 5, 2020 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Richard Goldberg

The EU Foreign Policy Chief’s Mission Impossible in Tehran

The new EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, traveled to Tehran this week to salvage the almost-dead Iran nuclear deal. Borell’s mission had little hope of success, however, since the European Union...

December 18, 2019 | Clifford D. May |

Progress on ‘the Jewish question’

Anti-Semites suffer defeats in the U.K. and the U.S.

September 6, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Why is Germany Silent on Corbyn’s Praise of Munich Terrorists?

The barn-burning revelations in the British newspaper Daily Mail in August that ...

January 11, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Europe’s Silence

It’s tempting to say that Europe’s leaders lack the courage of their convictions. But that would imply that they have convictions. The evidence suggests those days are gone....

December 6, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Analysis: Can the EU breathe a deep sigh of relief?

The defeat of the far-right politician Norbert Hofer in Austria’s presidential election on Sunday conjures up the writings of Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830- 1916), who quipped about her...

November 2, 2016 | Clifford D. May |

The “ideals of 1776”

Andrew Roberts, one of the world’s great historians, took America to task last week. Let me rephrase that: He took Americans to task for what they — or rather we — are doing to...

November 1, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia

Expect Political Turmoil in the Year Ahead

“Trump, Brexit, Migration: Is the world on fire?” This was the topical question explored by five panellists last month at a Toronto event sponsored by three organizations: th...

June 29, 2016 | Clifford D. May

Rule Britannia

Whether you think the United Kingdom exiting the European Union is cause for alarm or celebration, you have to concede this: Britons engaged in an open, lively and mostly peaceful debate, they tu...

June 29, 2016 | R. James Woolsey

America’s News HQ

Chairman of FDD's Leadership Council Jim Woolsey comments on Brexit.  ...

June 27, 2016 | Michael Ledeen

Brexit Is Not A British Revolution; It’s Part Of A Global Revolt

I’m not much of an expert on Great Britain;  when I took my doctoral exams at the University of Wisconsin in Western European History, the Brits weren’t included.   We...