Walter Laqueur

Walter Laqueur is the author of the forthcoming After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent, an assessment of the European crisis (Thomas Dunne Books, 2012).


Essays

Global Governance

Night Thoughts on Europe

| 10.25.11

Europe’s problems go far beyond deflating currency and rising debt. It suffers from a lack of will, a crisis of confidence—and a serious identity problem. The once-great superpower has already fallen. Centuries of predominance slip away.

Reviews

Society

Exodus

| 03.02.09

Morris turns to the origins of the one-state and two-state conceptions. It helps explain how the Israelis and Palestinians got themselves into this intractable conflict in the first place.

Society

You Had To Be There

| 12.01.99

A legacy besmirched: an ill-informed portrait of the Congress for Cultural Freedom.

Commentary

Global Governance

The Slow Death of Europe

| 08.16.11

Crises on the Continent go far beyond economics. The days of European strength and influence are over.

Society

Another Revolution Betrayed

| 05.16.11

What happened in Tahrir Square was a revolutionary fairy tale. But there will be no fairy-tale ending in our time.

Politics

Envisioning Russia after Putin

| 01.18.11

Putin will survive the current unrest. But how will Russia survive after Putin?

Security

Preview of Controversial Israel Article

| 02.13.09

The small state needs all deterrents it can obtain, but it also may have to adopt a low profile in order to survive.

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