Europe

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Europe

Home to America’s oldest allies, Europe has been central to America’s alliance network since World War II and the creation of NATO. Europe is confronting challenges to prosperity and traditional values from bureaucratic overreach and foreign adversaries, but encouraging progress is on display by those governments pursuing free market, transatlantic strategies while revitalizing their defense capabilities.

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U.S. First Principles vs. European Bureaucratic Overreach

Jun 4, 2026 4 min read

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Paul McCarthy

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Saving Britain, Saving the West - Our Last Chance

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What Putin sees when he looks to the West Peter Brookes

Mar 10, 2014 2 min read

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The crisis in Ukraine — America can be deferential no more Nile Gardiner, PhD

Mar 8, 2014 3 min read

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Europe must wake up to new danger Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Mar 7, 2014 2 min read

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Will Obama, Kerry cave on Ukraine just like they caved on Syria? Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D.

Mar 7, 2014 2 min read

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Getting Russia off the Ukrainian Tree in the Crimea Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.

Mar 5, 2014 3 min read

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The world as it is Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D.

Mar 5, 2014 3 min read

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Russia, the West, and Ukraine: Time for a Strategy—Not Hope

Mar 4, 2014 4 min read

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Of Mullahs and Lawyers Ted R. Bromund, PhD

Feb 24, 2014 4 min read

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Nile Gardiner, PhD

Director, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom and Bernard and Barbara Lomas Fellow

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Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow

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Senior Research Fellow, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom