The Globalist

Boris Johnson faces new challenges to British sovereignty, as global power shifts, tiny yet relevant, have returned in the aftermath of Brexit.

The UK needs to realize that cutting trade links with the continent has always been dumb — whether for Napoleon in December 1807 or Johnson in December 2020.

An exhausted British Prime Minister simply can’t fight on two fronts.

Faced with the Biden administration, Germany must finally come to terms with its geostrategic obligations and commitments.

The EU searches for a solid strategy for dealing with Turkey. The new U.S. administration may induce it to toughen its course.

Will Germany learn to live up to the harder part of its global responsibilities?

The Brexit virus refuses to cross the Channel.

Belarus is on a path of national rebirth that is increasingly incompatible with Putin’s pan-Slavic expansionism.

The ways in which the EU can put pressure on a UK that is going rogue are very limited — and potentially vast at the same time.

Boris Johnson’s latest Brexit moves give the Scottish independence movement a fresh impulse.