Image Credit: Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash Well this week initially designed to examine the Middle Power (MP) ‘variable geometry’ approach described by Canada’s Mark Carney and seemingly being…
Join me with Stewart Patrick in this fist podcast of the new ‘Now’ Series - Season 4, Episode 1. With Stewart in this podcast I am particularly interested in how…
It has been a ‘wild week’ for US foreign policy - even for this President. Experts provided geopolitical analyses on the Trump administration foreign policy plans from: the Munich Security…
The EAF Post focuses on the South Africa G20 presidency in 2025 - the tensions with the Trump administration during that hosting year, especially over the South Africa Declaration and…
Image Credit: Photo by Marek Studzinski on Unsplash+ It would be hard to replicate ‘the buzz’ that accompanied US Vice President Vance’s remarks from last year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC),…
It is clear that Europe is not perceived as a friend by President Trump, especially the intergovernmental EU of 27 nations. There isn’t, it seems, an instrument of multilateralism that…
Today’s Substack Post is slightly delayed. Apologies. I am working out a more practical, not to mention acceptable way for securing images that can, without concern, be shown at Alan’s…
It received a ‘ton’ of attention even in the context of a number of notable speakers, most obviously President Trump. What am I talking about? Well, it was Prime Minister…
I was fortunate to have a podcast sit down with my colleague Tom Wright of Brookings - https://globalsummitryproject.com/podcast/shaking-the-global-order-season-4-ep-1-an-interview-with-thomas-wright-on-the-trump-administrations-strategy-with-the-continuing-conflict-in-ukraine-and-a-peek-at-preside/ I explored with Tom the current conflicts, or near conflicts, in Ukraine,…
It is ‘head spinning’ but also ‘head shaking’. Talking with colleagues they convey the sense that it is difficult, if not nearly impossible to frame US foreign policy with Trump…
