European states face a common, and interconnected, dilemma at the UN and in NATO ? how to project force credibly.

Transformational leadership, not just status-quo management, is needed for NATO to bridge the chasm between its ambitions and its capacities.

The Swedish presidency should tour the EU's eastern periphery to ensure the region does not feel forgotten.

The political fallout of the Russia-Georgia war of August 2008 affects far more than the main combatants.

The EU can play a positive role in brokering a solution in Moldova - it can't afford a third election.

Moldova has managed to make the news again. This does not happen often.

On 29 July Moldova will hold early parliamentary elections. Nicu Popescu offers a snapshot of the country two days before the elections.

The recent controversy in the UK regarding a shortage of military equipment in Afghanistan highlights a wider refusal in Europe to recognise the nature of the security threats in a post Cold War world.

An open letter urging EU visa liberalisation for Kosovo. Signed by Giuliano Amato, Otto Schily, Gerald Knaus and Mark Leonard, among others.

The EU needs to better marshal its soft power in the eastern neighbourhood.

La desuni?n transatl?ntica en materia antiterrorista ha causado problemas legales y ha impedido emitir un mensaje que redujera el atractivo de Al Qaeda.

Equatorial Guinea is a deplorable tyranny, and that Obiang has no intention of building a democracy.

Nicu Popescu comments on developments in Abkhazia and South Ossetia after their recognition by Russia.

Britain needs to stick to its mission in Helmand ? it is the right thing to do.

Twenty years after the end of the Cold War, Central and Eastern Europe is no longer at the heart of American foreign policy. A GMF policy brief.