CEPA’s online journal covering critical topics on the foreign policy docket across Europe and North America.
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April 15, 2026
Hungary’s Magyar in His Own Words
Hungary’s prime minister-elect has made a barrage of statements since his landslide election victory on April 12.
April 15, 2026
Russia and the Pain of Losing Hungary
The loss of a populist ally in Budapest has a range of financial consequences for the Putin regime.
April 14, 2026
Animal Magic: Pets and Vets Aid Ukraine’s Resistance
Pets and animals play a crucial role in the resilience of Ukraine; veterinarians should be treated as a vital part of resistance to the war.
April 13, 2026
Ukraine’s Air Defenses — World Class, and Improving
No wonder European and Arab states are beating a path to Ukraine’s door. While others have serious air defense questions, Kyiv has answers.
April 13, 2026
Chaos at the ICC
The International Criminal Court has suffered one public blow after another, with growing questions about its ability to govern itself.
April 13, 2026
Hungary: First the Party, Now the Minefield
Hungary’s premier-elect will have a honeymoon but tricky problems await.
April 13, 2026
Hungary’s New Dawn: A Packed Agenda for Péter Magyar
As opposition supporters shake off the hangovers from a night of joy, the new government faces a mountain of problems.
April 10, 2026
Ukraine’s Africa Campaign: Fighting Russia on Europe’s Southern Border
Kyiv is disrupting Russia’s African networks. That reduces Moscow’s ability to raise money and to pressure Europe’s most vulnerable frontier.
April 10, 2026
The Disastrous Paradox of Russian Fear
Putin and his coercive security services have created a problem among ordinary Russians that has no easy solution.
April 9, 2026
New Ways to Win Wars — Proposals for the West
For decades, Western defense strategy assumed that technological superiority ensured victory. That assumption proves false in modern conflict.
April 9, 2026
Russia to Armenia: Do as We Say
Armenia has few options despite its rapprochement with Azerbaijan and Turkey and ties to the EU. None provides Yerevan with viable security.
April 8, 2026
Zelenskyy’s Drone Diplomacy Wins New Arab Friends
Behind the headlines of his Middle Eastern trip, Ukraine’s leader has underlined Ukraine’s nimble and quick-witted diplomacy.
April 8, 2026
Hungary’s Orbán Unleashes His ‘Digital Infantry’
As Viktor Orbán seeks to extend his 16-year premiership, a flood of hostile material seeks to paint the opposition as disloyal.
April 7, 2026
Hungary’s Election: It’s the Villages, Stupid
Understanding Hungarian politics means looking beyond Budapest. As the country nears its watershed April 12 election, the countryside is in sharp focus.
April 7, 2026
Hungary’s Moment of Truth
What will happen when Hungarians vote on April 12? What comes after that? These questions loom before Hungary’s most contested elections yet.
April 4, 2026
Why Ukraine Needs More Millionaires and Fewer Billionaires
Post-war Ukraine will need more than peace to hold social fabrics together and prosper, as Gen. David Petraeus recently explained.
April 3, 2026
Ukraine’s Technology Shield Gets Better and Better
Innovation from four years of war has given Ukraine a layered defensive system centered around technology.
April 2, 2026
The ‘Meloni Model’ Won’t Tame France’s Populist Right
France and Italy are profoundly different nations with different political cultures, whatever some people might imagine.
April 1, 2026
Hesitation Risks Escalation: Europe and Russia’s Shadow War
The West has failed to stop Russia’s shadow war. CEPA assessed the steps needed to restore credible deterrence.
April 1, 2026
Europe’s Next Catastrophe Will Be No Accident
Russia’s shadow war in Europe is escalating. Allies need a new strategy before it’s too late.
April 1, 2026
Will the Caspian Region Be Drawn Into the Iran War?
There are significant risks for the South Caucasus and Europe from the possible spread of the US-Israeli war with Iran.
April 1, 2026
Cyber Warfare 101: Bluff Don’t Tell
Uncertainty is leverage in cyber conflict. Iran possibly diluted its threats of electronic devastation by demonstrating how little it can do.
March 30, 2026
Pollution and Power Cuts: Russia Targets Moldova
The Kremlin has not ended its efforts to subvert and capture Moldova, as recent events make clear.
March 30, 2026
Europe’s Porous Air Defenses Unmasked by Iran War
Images of French and British fighters using high-tech air-to-air missiles to destroy Iranian attack drones may give the appearance of strength, but it betrays a serious weakness.
March 30, 2026
Putin Tells Billionaires to Fill the Begging Bowl
There is no sense of rejoicing in the Kremlin, even as the oil price soars and revenues rise.
March 27, 2026
A Playbook to Clear the Strait of Hormuz
The US and allies have recent experience working together in maritime choke points that should be considered in any operation close to Iran.
March 26, 2026
Croatia’s ‘City of Heroes’: A Warning From the Past
Thirty five years after the siege of Vukovar, and the atrocities committed by Serbs under Slobodan Milošević, the search for justice continues.
March 26, 2026
Moscow’s Plasticine Man Comes to Washington
The Russian parliamentarians now arriving in the US have very little influence back home. Their trip has another purpose.
March 26, 2026
Europe’s Democratic Backsliding Is Spreading Like Malware
The danger is not only that Slovakia is becoming Hungary. It is that Orbán’s style of politics is prevailing across all of Europe.
March 25, 2026
Putin Demands More Efficient Military Corruption
Changes at the top of the defense hierarchy reveal old-style graft and pressure to raise military spending efficiency.