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...

The European Union’s governmental institutions are not limited to the European Council and the Council of Ministers, both of which represent...

Does the E.U. itself instantiate a decline in European civilization? So says a National Security Strategy for the United States released by ...

Does the European Union represent a novel paradigm and thus a step in political development? Whether this is so or not, can the E.U. be thou...

Increasing integration of the global financial and business sectors and the global need to combat climate change by restricting carbon emiss...

There is an expression in politics referring to how legislation is made; it is likened to the making of sausage, the public display of which...

Ironically, in making the ruling on New Year’s Day of 2024 striking down Prime Minister Netanyahu’s amendment to the country’s basic law tha...

Domestic governance is perhaps more difficult than international relations in that real enforcement mechanisms are in force only in the form...

The matter of how the U.S. President is to be selected was a tough nut for the delegates in the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to crack. ...

Britain’s secession from the E.U. was, I submit, based on a reaction within the state against it having given up some of its sovereignty to...

Words can be stretched, or even abused, in the service of a self-serving ideology that is utterly unfair to other people as well as stubb...

Popular sovereignty, the ultimate sovereignty of a people as a whole, is typically exercised by an electorate at the ballot box. Such sover...

On November 7, 2017, Russian soldiers marched in a military parade in Red Square in Moscow to honor the soldiers who had marched in a milit...

By the end of 2012, over 60,000 Syrians had been killed and over half a million had fled as a result of the civil war in Syria. Shortages...

The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize went to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons for the group’s work on behalf of a global ban on ...

With a state government rapidly moving on legislation that would end the independence of that state’s judiciary, the E.U. Commission announ...

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

Lest it be thought that trade—indeed, economics— was the foremost consideration in the British decision to secede from the E.U., the state’...

Nearly six months after a majority of British voters voted to secede from the E.U., interest was building among Californians on the possib...

Dwarfed by the arduous trade negotiations between the E.U. and U.S., the E.U. and Canada actually completed negotiations on a free-trade ...