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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | James Fennell |Juraj Majcin |Paul Taylor |Sam Greene
Successive British governments have been walking backward towards rearmament. They know the world has changed, they know they need to bolster defense, yet all they can see is the warm glow of the post war-settlement behind them. Like over-optimistic day trippers on English beaches, they are wearing too little too late in the season, and now stand shivering and near-naked as icy gusts of realpolitik whip across the dunes.
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2 months ago | 
cepa.org | Juraj Majcin |Paul Taylor |Sam Greene |Colby Badhwar
The continent’s defense, technological and industrial capacity should be strengthened quickly using the leverage of the European Union’s regulatory power and its enormous market. To drive this, governments will need to increase national spending and borrow collectively to meet growing defense demands.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Sam Greene |Edward Lucas |Gonzalo Vázquez
The sequel, they say, is always worse than the original. Whether this applies to presidencies as much as Hollywood blockbusters is unclear. Europe, however, cannot afford to wait and see. The challenges a second Trump administration may pose for Europe are significant, ranging from the expected disruption of trading and security relationships to the multiplication of instability on Europe’s eastern and southern flanks. Each of these challenges, however, exploits Europe’s own internal divisions.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
tldrussia.substack.com | Sam Greene
First things first: apologies for missing a week. Life intervened, alas. Second things second: Am I allowed a moment of shameless self-promotion? This past Thursday, I got to share a bit of air time with Ola Onuch, Michał Baranowski and Orla Barry on PRI’s The World, unpacking the implications of the upcoming US elections for Ukraine. For my money, at least, The World regularly puts together some of the smartest reports on critical issues, and it was both fun and an honor to be part of this one.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
tldrussia.substack.com | Sam Greene
Mea culpa. In last week’s edition of this newsletter, I wrote that Georgian Dream, Georgia’s ruling party ahead of eleections later this month, had indicated that it would consider apologizing for Georgia’s role in the 2008 war with Russia. Careful readers reminded me that GD offered to apologize to the Ossetians, rather than to Russia, as I had suggested. This is absolutely true, though the political effect within Georgia is probably likely more or less the same.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Sam Greene |Edward Lucas
Whatever voters decide in November, US foreign policy will shift in 2025. One way or another, President Joe Biden will be the last traditional Atlanticist in the White House, the last commander-in-chief steeped in the traditions of America’s post-World War II ascendance and Cold War leadership. But while change may be inevitable, consistency is imperative. Faced with a challenge greater than any American president has seen since John F.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Edward Lucas |Sam Greene |Emil Avdaliani
Blenheim is the misspelled German name for a quintessentially British place. The lavish palace and sculpted grounds were built to reward the Duke of Marlborough for his victory in 1704 in the Bavarian town of Blindheim, which saved Vienna in the war of the Spanish Succession. Now Blenheim—which, among other things, is the birthplace of Britain’s wartime leader Winston Churchill—is preparing for the fourth summit of the European Political Community (EPC).
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
cepa.org | Lucinda Creighton |Clara Riedenstein |Sam Greene |Elina Ribakova
Washington DC, June 6, 2024 — The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) is expanding its presence in Europe with the launch of CEPA Europe in London and Brussels. CEPA Europe will serve as an anchor to drive the institution’s work around its three strategic pillars of defense, democracy, and digital through high-level meetings and discussions, policy-driven research, and insightful analysis from expert voices.
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May 12, 2024 | 
tldrussia.substack.com | Sam Greene
Meet the man whose job it is to make sure Vladimir Putin wins his war. Andrei Belousov — probably the least liberal of Russia’s talented economic technocrats — is the country’s new Minister of Defense. In that role, he replaces the vaunted Sergei Shoigu, who has been beside Putin for more or less the entirety of his political career, and whose new job as Secretary of the Security Council may or may not prove to be a promotion.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
tldrussia.substack.com | Sam Greene
Sorry, friends. This newsletter has been AWOL for a while, due to a combination of writing deadlines and other obligations, all of which seemed to pile up in the latter quarter of last year and continued through the first quarter of this one. It might be hubris to think that anyone noticed my absence, but if you did, I apologize—and I’m grateful for your patience. Looking ahead, I’m going to play around with the format a little bit.
