I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I ….

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of ….

What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-es….

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity..

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on t….

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of Ameri….

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by….

The first job of the historian and of the journalist is to find facts. Not the only job, perhaps not the most important, but the first. Facts are the….

Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy..

One thing, however, I know with certainty: violence, or the direct threat of violence, of the kind we have seen in the past few days, is totally unju….

In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our ….

Europe's biggest problem is its success..

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities..

The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in sat….

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life….

That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed wit….

Every step that produces a single job for a currently unemployed European should be taken. Every centimetre of red tape that puts someone out of work….

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time..

Canadians tend to be a bit more religious than most Europeans - though not more than the Poles or Ukrainians. Most important, their attitude to immig….

Russia has lost an empire but not yet found a role. Russia has to decide what it wants to be. And as we know in Britain, that takes some time. It is ….

Starting from the ruins of the Second World War, we - all Europeans said, after centuries of fighting each other, we're going to build permanent arra….