The conflict over Georgia has had one positive implication: the United States and Europe are forced to think strategically in dealing with Russia. Since the end of the cold war, Russia - and this is sometimes hard to understand for Europeans - has had little salience to US foreign policy. The...

The election campaign rhetoric on foreign policy issues is no direct indicator of the strategic priorities a new US President will set later - nor is it indicative of the actual policies which will be adopted. It does, however, reflect the ideological framework in which he and his circles of...

In the last four decades, no incumbent US president has faced such a formidable array of problems and challenges as Barack Obama does today: two wars being fought simultaneously, nuclear-armed Pakistan in a state of precarious stability, Iran possibly soon to be developing its own nuclear...

Increasing war weariness on the part of the American public and in Congress has madeit politically possible for President Obama to move away from the costly civil-militarycounterinsurgency strategy, without needing to fear criticism from the Republicans.The creeping transition to what is known...

Looking back at the US foreign policy discourse since the end of the Cold War, it is striking how entrenched and dominant one basic assumption has been: the idea that the United States must remain the leading power in the international system. According to this conception, the United States is...

In einem Beitrag für die "New York Times" vom 31. Mai 2022 benannte Präsident Joe Biden klarer denn je die Ziele der USA im Ukraine-Krieg: "eine demokratische, unabhängige, souveräne und prosperierende Ukraine, die die Mittel zur Abschreckung und Verteidigung gegen eine weitere Aggression...

Wirtschaftlich können Sanktionen im sanktionierten Land beträchtliche negative Wirkungen von langer Dauer entfalten. Doch ökonomische Kosten setzen sich keineswegs zwangsläufig in politische Wirksamkeit um. Sanktionen sind, was die Durchsetzung der angestrebten Politik- und...

Rivalry between the United States and China has become a paradigm of international relations over the past two years. It shapes both strategic debates and real political, military and economic dynamics. The dimensions of Sino-American competition over power and status include growing threat...

Präsident Biden hat die unter seinem Vorgänger eingeleitete Ausrichtung amerikanischer Weltpolitik auf den Konflikt mit China weitergeführt. Eingebettet ist die "strategische Konkurrenz" mit China in ein Narrativ, dem zufolge sich die Welt in einer fundamentalen Auseinandersetzung zwischen...