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The Federalists Go to Brussels

Christopher Patten | Oct 27, 2009
The European Union’s potential for superpower status has been greatly exaggerated. Brussels has neither the stomach for the job, nor the united purpose to undertake it.

Empire Falls

Robert A. Pape | Jan 22, 2009
The United States is in unprecedented decline. Future generations will look back at the past decade as the beginning of the end of American hegemony.

Liberté, Fraternité . . . Modernité?

The National Interest | Jul 01, 2007
As part of a new series expressing the views of foreign policy thinkers around the world, France's new president discusses Franco-American relations, the European Union's future and the Middle East.

Containing Europe

John Van Oudenaren | Jun 01, 2005
America and Europe compete to influence the international system. The U.S. response should be a new formulation of an old strategy.

Banking on Turkey

H. Kaan Nazli | Dec 01, 2004
On the eve of EU accession, Turkey's financial sector is poised to take off.

The Dating Game

Zeyno Baran | Mar 01, 2004
American is playing matchmaker to Turkey and the EU. It had better work. A broken engagement could mean a clash of civilizations.
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Commentary

Butt Out of Britain

Doug Bandow | Jan 15, 2013
Washington has no business telling the United Kingdom what its interests ought to be.

DIY Defense

Doug Bandow | Sep 30, 2009
Instead of relying on America to protect them from Russia, Eastern Europeans should build their own military capabilities.

Luck of the Irish

Doug Bandow | Aug 24, 2009
An upcoming referendum in Ireland could derail the Lisbon Treaty. But even if it passes, the EU is still split on the issue of political integration.
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Books & Reviews

Eating Vichyssoise in Athens

Geoffrey Wheatcroft | Apr 20, 2010
Beyond the latest rows, institutional paralysis and financial incompetence, the scars of war have plainly not all been healed. Is there a deeper collapse of European self-confidence?

All One's Eggs in One Basket Case; Review of John Laughland's The Tainted Source: The Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea

EUGEN WEBER | Jun 01, 1997
A specter is haunting Europe and John Laughland: the specter of Europe united, of nations abolished, of the administration of things replacing the government of people. He has written a book about it that is intriguing...

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