Foreign policy realists have long found inspiration in the ideas of Lord Castlereagh, who served as British foreign secretary during and after the Napoleonic Wars.

Somewhat overshadowed by his longtime ally, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish President Abdullah Gul has begun to carve out a more independent, progressive path.

Last winter, a wave of mass demonstrations suddenly broke the surface calm of Russian politics.

With its commandments and parables, its kings and its prophets, the Hebrew Bible has served as a reference point for Western politics for centuries. Almost every kind of political movement, it seems, has drawn its own message from the text.

After World War II, Europe began a process of peaceful political unification unprecedented there and unmatched anywhere else.

The euro's naysayers have it all wrong.

Germany seems like Europe's lone island of fiscal stability, but trouble lurks under its impressive export-fueled growth.

Moscow's anti-Putin protesters have captured the world's attention. But does their message resonate outside the big cities?

As a referendum on Scotland's independence looms, the question of the region's place in the United Kingdom has become the most pressing issue in British politics.

If the eurozone splinters, it will have been an avoidable disaster.

With Vladimir Putin back in power in Russia, understanding him is more important than ever. Two recent books attempt to unravel the mystery, adding new insight into the Russian leader's life and rule.

As Europe emerges from economic crisis, a larger challenge remains: finally turning the eurozone into an optimal currency area, with economies similar enough to sustain a single monetary policy.

Armand-Jean du Plessis, better known to history as Cardinal Richelieu (1585–1642), spent most of his career contending for and then exercising control over a deeply divided, indebted, and dysfunctional superpower.

Intelligent observers of Europe in the 1930s thought its future belonged to communism or fascism and would have ridiculed the notion that decades later the entire continent would be democratic.

Most pundits argue the eurozone has only two options: break up or create a fiscal union to match its monetary one.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has been gripped by a devastating population crisis almost unprecedented during peacetime.

President Viktor Yanukovych has led Ukraine, no stranger to crisis, into yet another round of turmoil.

China is hardly the first great power to make authoritarian development look attractive. As Jonathan Steinberg's new biography of Bismarck shows, Wilhelmine Germany did it with ease.

European leaders feel they have a right and duty to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Steven A. Cook discusses Turkish domestic politics after the uprisings.