The Republic is a journal published by The Palantir Foundation, featuring commentary and essays on technology, national security policy, and international affairs.

Winter 2026

  • A Grand Strategy for Europe in the New Cold War 

    Europe’s pursuit of “strategic autonomy” is an illusion. In the 21st century, the continent must anchor its future in a renewed, interdependent Free World Coalition.

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    When an August 2025 photograph from the Oval Office showed Donald Trump seated behind his desk, lecturing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a row of confused European leaders, it instantly became a symbol of Europe’s geopolitical reality. Commentators’ complaint that…

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    A Grand Strategy for Europe in the New Cold War 

  • Sovereignty at Mach 2

    Last Wednesday, European forces used American jets to achieve European sovereignty.

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    At midnight last Wednesday, nineteen Russian drones crossed into Polish airspace. Within minutes Dutch F-35s scrambled, Polish F-16s vectored to intercept, Italian surveillance planes coordinated the response, and German Patriot missile systems stood ready.1 That night, Europe demonstrated that it…

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    Sovereignty at Mach 2

  • The Bloodlands Rise  

    There is an emerging East-West division in European culture and politics, with major implications for the future of European security policy and trans-Atlantic relations.

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    The Iron Curtain fell decades ago, but its legacy lives on. Despite the institutional connections tying Europe together, such as the EU and NATO, there is an emerging division in European culture and politics. While Western Europe is the continent’s…

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    The Bloodlands Rise  

  • Brussels Unchained: Implementing the AI Act

    For the AI Act to succeed, the EU must empower the European AI Office to attract and retain true technical expertise.

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    The European Union’s AI Act, which entered into force in August 2024, represents the world’s first comprehensive regulatory framework for AI. Implementation falls to the European AI Office, established to develop technical standards for applying the law, coordinate enforcement across…

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    Brussels Unchained: Implementing the AI Act

  • Lessons from London

    Europe can replicate the UK’s geopolitical revival by emulating London’s strategic agility.

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    A common narrative in Europe persists that the United Kingdom’s geopolitical status has been weakened after Brexit. Similar views exist in the United States, where the argument has been made that Britain has recently become too liberal, too “woke,” to…

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    Lessons from London

  • “And There Was War in Heaven”

    Ukraine proves space power is indispensable for victory in modern warfare, but the satellite networks that have proved effective against Russia are insufficient to win a long-term competition with China.

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    The strategic relevance of space has only increased in the 21st century, with the domain once again a primary arena for geopolitical competition between West and East. While Western satellite networks have been indispensable in the war in Ukraine, complacency…

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    “And There Was War in Heaven”

  • Once as Tragedy, Twice as Farce

    The ghosts of Munich haunt Europe not as historical repetition but as recurring strategic reflexes that threaten its survival.

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    Book Review: Le fantôme de Munich: L’Europe face aux défis du monde contemporain by Isabelle Lasserre, 2025 (172 pages) Isabelle Lasserre’s The Ghosts of Munich is both a warning and a diagnosis. More than a historical analogy, the “Munich” reference…

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    Once as Tragedy, Twice as Farce

  • Does European Survival Require Statehood?

    David Marsh diagnoses how the EU’s halfway status between international organization and federal power is threatening its security and prosperity.

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    Book Review: Can Europe Survive?: The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World by David Marsh, 2025 (528 pages) Two decades ago, the exceptional nature of the European Union prompted considerable excitement among academics and policy analysts. It was…

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    Does European Survival Require Statehood?

  • The Planned Obsolescence of China’s “Collective Leadership”

    The reforms that were supposed to liberalize China instead enabled totalitarianism’s return.

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    Book Review: The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism by Minxin Pei, 2025 (344 pages) How, in the 21st century, did totalitarianism return to the People’s Republic of China? This is the question at the heart of Minxin Pei’s…

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    The Planned Obsolescence of China’s “Collective Leadership”