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The Pirate Party Rises

Tyson Barker | Apr 18, 2012

The young party is poised to be the new durable European protest movement. The Greens have competition.

The Perils of Militarized Diplomacy

Franz-Stefan Gady | Jan 27, 2012

As American power wanes, Washington is running out of ways to influence small European democracies.

Five Remedial Lessons from the Norwegian Tragedy

Paul R. Pillar | Jul 25, 2011

The punditocracy gets it wrong again.

Lars Von Trier and Nazi Weirdness

Jacob Heilbrunn | May 19, 2011

Libya and the Tragedy of Incremental Decision-Making

Paul R. Pillar | Apr 22, 2011

Confusion, disagreement and emotion are clouding U.S. judgment in Libya.

Swedish Motivation

Michael Scheuer | Dec 15, 2010

The Stockholm bomber shows that terrorists hate the West because of our policies, not who we are.

The Girl Who Wasn't So Special

Benny Morris | Aug 24, 2010

Perhaps, in a world so crowded with "others," Sweden has become the new exotic.

Europe Doesn't Matter

Doug Bandow | Feb 10, 2010

The EU doesn’t have a united foreign policy and its member countries are downsizing their militaries. Why are Europeans surprised no one pays attention to them?

Derailing Lisbon

Doug Bandow | Oct 29, 2009

Unelected EU bureaucrats want to pass the Lisbon Treaty to further their aims of a united Continent. Czech President Vaclav Klaus might stop them.

Continental Drifts

Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Mar 2, 2009

America and the Continent may find themselves once again a united force to be reckoned with by the rest of the world. But the odds are grim.

Nobel Peace Prize for War

Dimitri K. Simes | Dec 12, 2008

On his blog Subjective Evaluation, Dimitri K. Simes notes that Martti Ahtisaari, latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, hardly deserves it. As an architect of Kosovo’s independence, he helped cause a war.

Xenophobia on the Continent

Andrew Kohut
Richard Wike
 | Oct 30, 2008

Anti-Semitism is on the march in Europe. But the European’s new turn toward isolationism goes even further than that.

NATO's Drug Problem

Fabrice Pothier | Oct 15, 2008

NATO's new war on drugs in Afghanistan will put troops in greater danger for a venture that may not even work. It just might be the straw that breaks the alliance's back.

Energy Without Politics

Nikos Tsafos | Sep 12, 2008

The solution to Europe’s energy woes isn’t political unification against a Russian threat. Europeans should keep politics out of energy and let markets do their jobs.

European Disunion

Doug Bandow | Aug 5, 2008

Why Europe will watch as America and China dominate the next century. Ireland’s failure to ratify a new European-integration treaty highlights the disconnect between the EU’s superpower ambitions and popular opinion.

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