Tag: nato
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Procedural Sovereignty and the Grammar of European Agency: Meloni and Merz in Rome between Competitiveness, Security, and Institutional Seriousness
The Rome joint press conference featuring Giorgia Meloni and Friedrich Merz, staged as the public terminus of bilateral government consultations, offers a compact but unusually legible specimen of contemporary European executive reasoning: it is an event in which competitiveness, security, and sovereignty are treated less as separate policy domains than as mutually conditioning registers of…
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Calulus, Guarantees, and the Remainder of Freedom: A Davos Ukrainian Breakfast as an Event of Alliance Reasoning
The recorded discussion staged as a “Ukrainian Breakfast” at Ukraine House on the margins of the World Economic Forum at Davos offers a compact laboratory for examining how contemporary Euro-Atlantic public reasoning tries to hold together heterogeneous registers: humanitarian witnessing, alliance management, legal-financial constraint, technocratic reconstruction, and strategic coercion. Its governing ambition, as the sequence…
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Instruments of Order Under Pressure: Alexander Stubb’s Values-Based Realism and the Re-Specification of Europe at Davos 2026
The recorded session stages Finnish President Alexander Stubb at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as a a compact, highly mediated instance of public geopolitical reasoning in which a head of state and a policy-intellectual moderator attempt to render “order” thinkable under conditions of accelerated volatility. The central problem-space is articulated as a transition…
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Procedures of Autonomy: NATO Integration, European Capability, and the Public Grammar of Defense at Davos 2026
The recorded session titled “Can Europe Defend Itself?” stages a concentrated test of what “defense” means when it is spoken in the same breath as alliance law, industrial capacity, fiscal mobilization, health sovereignty, and the management of intra-alliance conflict. Its governing ambition is practical—assessing Europe’s ability to sustain security under conditions of strategic uncertainty—yet its…
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Europe as Rule-Form Under Pressure: Macron’s Davos Address on Sovereignty, Multilateralism, and the Political Economy of Protection
The event of Emmanuel Macron at Davos is a case study in how a head of government tries to convert a diagnosis of systemic disorder into a program of institutional retooling, while speaking inside a venue that is simultaneously a deliberative forum, a media stage, and an investment-facing showcase. The address is framed as a…
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Thermostatic Alliance: Sovereignty, Procedural Reason, and the Re-Coding of Greenland into NATO’s Arctic Grammar
The press briefing staged in Stockholm with Sweden’s foreign minister, Maria Malmer Stenergård, and Denmark’s foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, constitutes a compact but conceptually saturated instance of public reasoning under alliance pressure. Its central problem concerns how Nordic actors can affirm principled commitments—sovereignty, territorial integrity, self-determination, and the authority of international law—while managing an…
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Ending Europe’s Groundhog Day: Zelenskyy at Davos and the Critique of Actionless Order
The event can be read as an attempt to convert a familiar diplomatic lament into a diagnostically organized indictment of European agency. The speech treats political paralysis as a repeatable form of life, and then tests that claim by moving across disparate crises—Greenland, Iran, Venezuela, frozen assets, sanctions, tribunals, maritime oil flows—so that “Europe” appears…
Simon Gros 