CEPA’s online journal covering critical topics on the foreign policy docket across Europe and North America.

Black Sea Cables to Slake Europe’s Thirst for Energy
January 31, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

Western Elites — Rubles Bought (Some of) the Best
January 30, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

From Havel to Pavel: The New Czech President
January 29, 2023
Elections
Europe's Edge
NATO

The European Union’s Evolving Military Capability
January 27, 2023
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Leopards Can Change Their Spots
January 27, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Iran Embassy Killing Shakes Region
January 27, 2023
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats

Russia’s Return to Gulag Economics
January 27, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

What’s a Russian?
January 26, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

How Western Tanks Will Make a Difference in Ukraine
January 26, 2023
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Behind the Lines: Russia Steps up Ukrainian Deportations
January 25, 2023
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Rebuilding Ukraine: A Historic Plan for Congress
January 25, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Wagner and the Serbs
January 25, 2023
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Mighty Baltics Lead the NATO Pack
January 25, 2023
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Georgia’s High-Risk Balancing Act
January 24, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

Germany to Crocodile: Eat Me Last
January 23, 2023
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Predators Will Circle Baltic Power Farms
January 23, 2023
Baltic Sea
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security

Germany: Exporting Irresponsibility
January 21, 2023
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Our Debt to Ukraine — Payback Time
January 19, 2023
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Prioritizing the Rule of Law: Ukraine Must Stay the Course
January 19, 2023
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law

Russian Media in Exile and Latvia: The Limits of Free Speech
January 19, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Russia

Western Oil Cap Helps Slash Russian Oil Revenues by $150bn
January 17, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

The Fourth Battle of the Atlantic Is Underway
January 17, 2023
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
NATO
Regional Security

Learn to Love Death, Russians Urged
January 17, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Posturing or Mobilization? Belarus in 2023
January 17, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Big Bang Theory
January 15, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

NATO General Within Reach of Czech Presidency
January 15, 2023
Elections
Europe's Edge

Romania Is Hiding its Light
January 13, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Sanctions

Kremlin Crosshairs Focus on Exiles
January 13, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

UKRAINE = RUSSIA? NYET
January 13, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Poland’s Flawed Star Can Shine
January 12, 2023
Elections
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security

Ploughshares into Swords — NATO Spending Must Rise
January 12, 2023
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security

Behind the Lines: Ukrainian Currency Seized
January 12, 2023
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Sanctions

News From Thin Air
January 10, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Artillery Heralds Kherson’s New Year
January 10, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Erdoğan’s NATO-Needling
January 10, 2023
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security

An Unorthodox Russian Vision of Heaven and Hell
January 10, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

All Eyes on Georgia’s Black Sea Dream
January 9, 2023
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Old at Home, New(ish) Abroad
January 8, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

Will a Split Congress Threaten US Aid to Ukraine?
January 6, 2023
Elections
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

NAFO’s Fellas Must Evolve
January 5, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Ukraine — What Will 2023 Bring?
January 4, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

The Baltics — a Ship to Weather the Energy Storm
January 4, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

In the Name of God, Go
January 3, 2023
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

A Year of Victory
January 1, 2023
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

US Victory Within Reach — Don’t Throw Away Ukraine’s Sacrifice Now
December 23, 2022
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Ukraine’s Success Is America’s Success, Zelenskyy Tells Washington
December 23, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Leader Loss: Russian Junior Officer Casualties
December 23, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Zelenskyy to the GOP: Stand With Us
December 22, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Putin’s End-of-Year Message — Embrace the Forever War
December 22, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Germany’s Risky Sino Romance
December 22, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Behind the Lines
December 21, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

Morocco Breaks Africa’s Neutrality with Arms for Ukraine — Reports
December 21, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

It’s Complicated
December 21, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Rumors That Resonate
December 18, 2022
Disinformation
Europe's Edge
Russia

Slovakia’s Government Falls
December 16, 2022
Elections
Europe's Edge

Wagner Mercenary Pleads for Return to Jail
December 16, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Russia

Italy Seeks to Calm the Balkan Cockpit
December 14, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
National Security and Intelligence
Regional Security

Erdoğan — Winged, but no Lame Duck
December 14, 2022
Europe's Edge
Sanctions

Beware of (Russian) Hubs Bearing Gifts
December 14, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

A Kurdish-Zionist-ISIS-Nazi-Gay Plot to Capture the Planet? Er, No
December 14, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Why Latvia Must Engage its Russian Minority
December 13, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

The Zeitenwende – a Health Check
December 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Can Belarus Avoid Putin’s War?
December 12, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Assassins vs. Spies
December 12, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

The Only Path to Peace
December 11, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security

NATO: A Patriotic Response to Save Ukraine
December 9, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Behind the Lines
December 8, 2022
Disinformation
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security

Is Belarus Preparing to join Russia’s War? Maybe
December 7, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Self-Harming: the West’s Media Policy for Russia
December 7, 2022
Civil Society
Disinformation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Putin’s War in Ukraine: It’s Essential Not to Talk
December 7, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Georgia Fatigue? Time to Wake Up
December 7, 2022
Disinformation
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Rule of Law

Russia’s Covert Mobilization to Feed the Frontline
December 6, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Will Putin’s Anti-LGBT Stunt Work?
December 6, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Russia

The Miniaturization of Force
December 6, 2022
Defense Innovation
Emerging technology
Europe's Edge

The EU Returns to Central Asia
December 6, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Liberty, Equality, Vanity
December 4, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

US Gas Keeps the Eiffel Tower Lit
December 1, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Sanctions

Russia’s Imperial Farce
December 1, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Next Time a Missile Hits Poland…
December 1, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Ukraine’s War Against the Dark
December 1, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Russia: Taming the Outlaw State
November 29, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Ukraine: Time for a New Berlin Airlift
November 29, 2022
Europe's Edge
Russia
Security & Defense

Light Flares in Ukraine’s Darkness
November 28, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

The Menace of a Deepening China-Russia Axis
November 28, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

High Treason, Stalin-Style
November 28, 2022
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law
Russia

China’s Victory in Ukraine
November 27, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Making Russia Pay
November 24, 2022
Europe's Edge
Russia
Sanctions

Ukraine’s Refugees Mull Return After Russian Retreats
November 24, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge

Expanding the West’s Footprint in Tokayev’s ‘New Kazakhstan’
November 24, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Can the Kremlin Capture Russia’s Restless Ultra-Nationalists?
November 21, 2022
Civil Society
Elections
Europe's Edge
Russia

Russia’s Dying Eurasian Dream
November 21, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Blowing Hot and Cold
November 20, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

It’s Costing Peanuts for the US to Defeat Russia
November 18, 2022
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Zombie Ostpolitik
November 17, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

West Must Craft a Russian Strategy
November 17, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Doomed to Failure — Russia’s Efforts to Restore its Military Muscle
November 15, 2022
Europe's Edge
National Security and Intelligence
Regional Security
Russia

The Compatriots: The Russian Exiles Who Fought Against the Kremlin
November 15, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Few-Friends Russia Embraces Iran
November 14, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

Putin Runs out of Options
November 14, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Three Fronts
November 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Russia’s Aggression Justifies Western Cyber Intervention
November 9, 2022
Cybersecurity
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Russia

My Grandma — an Ordinary Hero of Lithuania’s Resistance
November 9, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Russia

Putin Weaponizes Winter
November 9, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Putin’s Chef Turns Handyman
November 9, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

A Security Partnership Act for the Baltics?
November 9, 2022
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Russia Fears Return of a Criminal Army
November 7, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law
Russia

War of Words
November 6, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Homophobic Murders Bring Dire Warnings From Slovak President
November 2, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law

Iran Battles Turkish Influence in South Caucasus
November 1, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law

Russia — The World Hates Us
November 1, 2022
Disinformation
Europe's Edge
Russia

Germany’s Belated Awakening
October 31, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law
Russia

Kremlin Must Loosen its Grip for Russia to Survive
October 31, 2022
Europe's Edge
Russia

Italy’s New Government: Five things to Remember
October 31, 2022
Elections
Europe's Edge
NATO

The Siege That Still Scars Russia
October 31, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Russia

Russia’s Costly War Saps its Regions
October 28, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

Foreign Outreach Belies Putin’s Nuclear Threats
October 28, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Russia’s Garbled Nuclear Missile Message
October 28, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Baltics Bring Down the Shutters on Free Migration
October 27, 2022
Baltic Sea
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Western Progressives and Reactionaries for Putin
October 27, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law
Russia

Sirens and Flaming Shots — Life in Wartime Odesa
October 26, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Dirty Bomb — What’s Russia’s Game?
October 26, 2022
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Freedom Calling — Cold War Radio, Then and Now
October 25, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Democracy
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Let the Guns Speak — Ukraine Is Writing its Future
October 25, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Russia’s Collapse? Good News for Everyone
October 25, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Give Peace A Chance
October 22, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Russia’s Dilemma on Secular Islam
October 21, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

A Western Strategy for Ukraine: Part 3
October 20, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Russia’s Enfeeblement Sends Shudders Through Central Asia
October 19, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Hobbled Russia Cedes Influence to China
October 18, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Putin Says the Gloves Are Off — Believe Him
October 18, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Europe’s New Military Frontline
October 17, 2022
Black Sea
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Hot Seat
October 17, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
NATO
Regional Security

South Caucasus Inch Closer to Peace
October 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Whisper it — Russia Begins to Discuss Defeat
October 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

FSB Seizes a Greater Role in Russia’s Shadow War
October 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Russia

Ukraine: Blood for Freedom
October 13, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

How Russia Learned to Love the Bomb (Too Much)
October 11, 2022
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security

Russia’s Imperial Dream Fades in Transnistria
October 11, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Troubled Bridge Over Stolen Waters
October 9, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Call-Up Agitates Russia’s Army of Apathy
October 7, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Latvia’s Russian Speakers Make Radical Electoral Choices
October 7, 2022
Elections
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Russia Suffers a Torrent of Battlefield Defeats
October 6, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

The Russian Double — Defeat and Decline
October 5, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Lukashenka Plays Russian Roulette
October 4, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law

Blood Money — Calculating Russia’s Debt to Ukraine
October 3, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

The Energy Winter War
October 3, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia
Sanctions

Dealing with Defeat
October 2, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Ukraine is Winning the Cyber War
September 29, 2022
Cybersecurity
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Russia

Russia-China Axis Smiles on Disorder
September 29, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Russia’s Playing the Waiting Game, Applebaum Says
September 28, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
CEPA Forum
Democracy
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Charity Begins with Drones: Funding Ukraine’s Resistance
September 28, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Emerging technology
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

War in Ukraine Will Decide World’s Future: Reznikov
September 28, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
CEPA Forum
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

West Must Awake to Russia-China Alliance, EU Warns
September 28, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
CEPA Forum
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

US Will Stay the Course on Ukraine: Sherman
September 28, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
CEPA Forum
Democracy
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Putin’s Dangerous Bet
September 27, 2022
CEPA Forum
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Crimea in Ukraine’s Crosshairs, Say US Generals
September 27, 2022
Black Sea
CEPA Forum
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

What Next for Italian Foreign Policy?
September 27, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security
Sanctions

Russians Dash for the Exits
September 27, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Putin Gambles on Winter and Orbán
September 27, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Sanctions

‘Intoxicated’ West Guilty of Russia Errors, Says Polish Premier
September 27, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
CEPA Forum
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security

Energy Costs the Price of Freedom, Latvia’s Kariņš Says
September 27, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
CEPA Forum
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Sanctions

Rusty Guns
September 27, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Expelling Russia from the UN Security Council — a How-to Guide
September 26, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law

Vatican Silent as Brazen China Targets Cardinal
September 26, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law

A Western Strategy for Ukraine: Part 2
September 26, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security

All Bluff? Russia’s Nuclear Threats
September 24, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
NATO
Regional Security
Russia

Finland Gets Russia: So Listen
September 23, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security

Putin Gambles His Future on Mobilization
September 23, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

The Ukrainian General Behind Putin’s Defeats
September 23, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security

Iran and Russia Seek New Sanctions Evasion Corridor
September 22, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Emerging technology
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Russia’s Military Manpower Crunch Will Worsen
September 21, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
National Security and Intelligence
Regional Security

Justice Demands the Arraignment of Russia’s Guilty Men
September 21, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law

Democracies United Versus Illiberalism
September 21, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law

Putin’s Chef Seeks the Ingredients of Death
September 20, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats

After Putin
September 20, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Russian Power Wanes in the Borderlands
September 19, 2022
Europe's Edge
National Security and Intelligence
Regional Security
Russia

Putin’s Options Dwindle Despite ‘Coffin Money’
September 16, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

The Bewilderment of Kremlin Propagandists
September 16, 2022
Disinformation
Europe's Edge
Russia

Time to Confront Russia’s Nuclear Recklessness in Ukraine
September 15, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Regional Security
Russia

Russia’s Military — Losing the Will to Fight
September 15, 2022
Authoritarian Threats
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Ukraine’s Titanium Can Armor the West
September 14, 2022
Emerging technology
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Czech Government Wobbled by Mass Protests
September 14, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Russia

New Fighting Flares in the South Caucasus
September 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Kremlin Lifts Electoral Burden From Voters
September 13, 2022
Elections
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law
Russia

The War of Putin’s Defeat
September 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

New Fighting Flares in the South Caucasus
September 13, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Sweden Pays for a Negative Election
September 13, 2022
Civil Society
Elections
Europe's Edge

An Education: Islamic Universities in Russia
September 12, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Russia

The Elizabethan Era
September 9, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law

Russia’s Caucasian Vassals Learn a Hard Lesson
September 9, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

For Russia, Nuclear Plants Are Nuclear Bombs
September 9, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

The West Must Break China’s Solar Chokehold
September 8, 2022
China
Emerging technology
Europe's Edge

Muzzling the Watchdogs: Russia’s Media Crackdown
September 7, 2022
Civil Society
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law
Russia

Ukraine Is Winning
September 6, 2022
Defense Innovation
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Germany’s War-Induced Energiewende — a Crisis With Benefits
September 6, 2022
Emerging technology
Europe's Edge
Regional Security

Russia’s Multiplying War Problems
September 6, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Saying “Sorry”
September 5, 2022
Elections
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law

Might Putin Annex Belarus?
September 1, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Rule of Law
Russia

Ukraine Rolls the Dice in Kherson Offensive
August 31, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

A Western Strategy for Ukraine
August 31, 2022
Europe's Edge
Regional Security
Russia

Who Pays for the Failed Nord Stream 2? European Taxpayers
August 31, 2022
Europe's Edge
Hybrid Threats
Russia
Sanctions

Circumventing Russia
August 31, 2022
China
Europe's Edge
Russia
Sanctions

Accidental Hero
August 31, 2022
Europe's Edge
Rule of Law
Russia

The Swedish Fighter Pilot Crisis
August 30, 2022
Europe's Edge
NATO
Regional Security