Global View
Putin Is Weak. Europe Doesn’t Have to Be
Moscow is a sideshow. The real dangers come from within the Continent.
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Walter Russell Mead
Columnist, Global View, The Wall Street JournalWalter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities at Bard College, a Distinguished Fellow in American Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, and The Wall Street Journal's Global View columnist. He formerly served as the Editor-at-Large for The American Interest, where he directed the popular Via Meadia blog.Professor Mead currently serves as a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Bosch Stiftung, and previously was the Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. The author of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (2008), Professor Mead is also the United States book reviewer for Foreign Affairs. Professor Mead is an honors graduate of Yale College, as well as a founding board member of New America and a board member of Freedom House.
Articles
Global View
Is Helsinki Trump’s Iran Deal?
The president may be indulging Russia as his predecessor did the Islamic Republic.
Global View
How Trump Plans to Change the World
He rejects the postwar order on the ground that it puts the U.S. at a disadvantage.
Global View
America’s Decline Never Seems to Arrive
Our institutions show an unrivaled capacity for weathering disruptive change.
Global View
Pompeo on What Trump Wants
An interview with Trump’s top diplomat on America First and ‘the need for a reset.’
Global View
Why Italy Dares to Turn Away Refugees
Rome is reacting to a rising problem, but to EU elites such ideas remain unthinkable.
Global View
Why Trump Clashes With Europe
Sharp differences in style and substance threaten the trans-Atlantic alliance.
The Saturday Essay
Trump’s Iran Gambit
Despite his aggressive rhetoric, the president is not determined to topple the Islamic Republic, as some critics fear. For now, he seems more interested in making a new deal with Tehran.
Global View
Putin’s Success Masks Russian Weakness
Things are breaking his way. But if China is a tiger, Russia is a pussycat on stilts.
Global View
The Benefits and Risks of Trump’s Dazzle
‘The Art of the Deal’ proves he’s far from erratic. Still, he could turn down the heat.
Global View
Europe Is Feeling Trumped
No U.S. president has been as loathed. But the Continent knows it still needs America.
