The ex-Georgian President’s dramatic return to Ukraine sets up a showdown with President Poroshenko. Whoever wins, Ukraine loses.

The French President’s ambitious agenda for EU reform will endear him to Athens—but it could set him on a collision course with Berlin.

So much for burying the hatchet with Beijing.

Cracks are showing in the group’s common defiance of Brussels. How significant are they?

But what happens after the road runs out?

A coming surge of migrants and a controversial fiscal stance could complicate Merkel’s life after a likely re-election.

There are no short-term fixes to the North Korean crisis, only a long-term containment challenge.

Kyiv’s “patronal” politics and soft authoritarianism could extinguish the promise of the Maidan, just as they did the Orange Revolution before it.

It’s a sudden end to a smoldering standoff between Beijing and New Delhi—but who was the one that blinked?

As the Doklam standoff continues, a second major border dispute could well be emerging.