Gabriel Elefteriu

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  • Jul 17, 2025
    With a trillion dollar budget now finally in sight for the United States military, with Europe, too, formally committing to hundreds of billions of new defence spending as...
  • Jul 10, 2025
    Last month’s NATO summit in The Hague gave off the disturbing impression of an alliance finally crossing the fine line between serious defence policy into the realm of...
  • May 31, 2025
    Recently, the United States has fully unveiled a new initiative under President Trump called Golden Dome – a missile defence project of unprecedented scope and...
  • May 15, 2025
    It may be too early to tell whether George Simion is a man of destiny, even if he does win the Romanian presidency this Sunday. He would have to go on and achieve great things...
  • May 2, 2025
    As the geometry of international relations alters under the shockwaves emanating from the White House, old assumptions about alliances begin to fray. Like a kind of geopolitical...
  • Apr 24, 2025
    It has become cliché to say that the advent of the second Trump administration has thrown the world into chaos.
  • Apr 17, 2025
    For all the vast amounts of analysis and the constant discussion dedicated to the Ukraine war across Western media and specialist centres, there is still considerable divergence of...
  • Apr 10, 2025
    President Trump’s tariff bombshell is more than simply a historic economic decision with geopolitical consequences on the side, as second-order effects....
  • Apr 4, 2025
    Donald Trump’s real foreign policy vision in his second term remains an intriguing puzzle. The aspiration to “peace through strength”, for example, is not very easy...
  • Mar 27, 2025
    The advent of Donald Trump’s second presidency has brought a considerable level of disruption to US foreign policy in a very short space of time.
  • Mar 20, 2025
    The road to peace in Ukraine is extremely difficult and perhaps also very long, despite president Trump’s initial hopes. Even agreeing an initial ceasefire in Ukraine...
  • Mar 4, 2025
    The emergency summit convened in London on Sunday by the UK prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was hailed as a major success – and in some ways it was. 
  • Feb 26, 2025
    The most shocking political events took place on February 26 in Bucharest, where the front-runner in Romania’s presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, was seized by...
  • Feb 20, 2025
      This year will see the 80th anniversary of VE Day, i.e. Victory in Europe over Nazi Germany in May 1945. 
  • Jan 30, 2025
    One of history’s most powerful drivers of change is the so-called law of unintended consequences. It may not be subject to scientific demonstration and theorising, but,...
  • Jan 24, 2025
    From the moment that America’s 47th president took his oath of office this Monday, it’s as if national conservatives around the world, together with the opponents of...
  • Jan 16, 2025
    With Donald Trump only days away from being sworn into what will likely be the most “imperial” of US presidencies since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s, the geopolitical...
  • Jan 9, 2025
    On 6 December 2024 Romania’s Constitutional Court (CCR) cancelled the country’s presidential election while runoff voting was already underway in the diaspora....