2026: The year we stop pretending it’s just a phase – European Council on Foreign Relations

2026: The year we stop pretending it’s just a phase – European Council on Foreign Relations

Cover image: Nano Banana on Gemini This year, we decided to finally relinquish our state-of-the-art scoring algorithm to a less interested party. But lest things get out of hand, the authors have outsourced this thankless task to an ECFR colleague: Chris Herrmann, our intrepid US programme coordinator. It may explain why we did slightly less well than in previous years (despite achieving a nevertheless impressive 7 out of 10 points)—although thi…