In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, one trend in the American retail sector involved the creation of a status that had not...

Even though the default absolutist notion of national sovereignty has consistently undercut global efforts to combat climate change and rid ...

The European Civil Protection Pool (ECPP) was established in 2013 to provide emergency response personnel and equipment to combat natural an...

While one Georgia was secure as a member-state in the U.S., another Georgia was finding itself being frozen out of not only accession talks ...

Whereas when the U.S. responds to natural disasters abroad, the resources of all 50 states are combined in a federal-level response, the E.U...

Both the filibuster in the U.S. Senate and the veto in the European Council reflect the act that the respective states were sovereign and re...

Even as the E.U. struggled to come up with foreign policies on Gaza, Ukraine, and Iran in March, 2026, the union must have been cogent enoug...

Is a more perfect Union in Europe in America’s national interest? On the American holiday in 2026 that principally honors George Washington,...

The words mutuality and cooperation have positive connotations politically, whereas divisive and exclusive do not. To be sure, mutual cooper...

“State rights” was a common refrain by the eleven U.S. member states who sought to exit in 1861; the underlying fear was that the exclusive ...

On America’s Thanksgiving Day, 2025, Dmytro Kuleba, a former foreign minister of Ukraine, was asked whether Ukraine’s government officials c...

Both the E.U. and U.S. have their respective flag days during the month of June—on the 29 th and 14 th , respectively. This isn’t the only ...

In March, 2025 after the U.S. had direct talks with Russia on ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the E.U. stepped up its game in helping U...

On December 6, 2024, the E.U. finally—meaning more than twenty years after negotiations had begun—reached a free-trade agreement with Argent...

European integration has proceeded in fits and starts since Robert Shuman proposed the European Coal and Steel Cooperative in 1950 so Europe...

At the signing of the Rome Declaration at the 60 th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which established the European Community on March 2...

In addressing the E.U. Parliament in February, 2017, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Tradeau, claimed that the E.U. “is a truly remarkable ...

In policing its borders as late as 2016, the E.U. suffered the same plight as the U.S. did under its Articles of Confederation—only whereas...

In his book, Fed Up! Governor Rick Perry of Texas provides a basis for viewing the states of the U.S. as equivalent to the E.U.’s member-s...

The United States and the European Union are not typically thought of on either side of the Atlantic Ocean as commensurate, and thus compar...