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The Federalists Go to Brussels

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

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.

Arab Spring Fever

All hope is not lost for democracy in the Middle East. Political pluralism may be taking root, but real change will not emerge on any U.S. administration’s timetable.

Liberté, Fraternité . . . Modernité?

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.

The Return of the State

Five years ago, the Arab state was the problem.  Now it is seen as the solution.

Containing Europe

America and Europe compete to influence the international system. The U.S. response should be a new formulation of an old strategy.

Commentary

The Arab Education Revolution

The Arab Spring alone won't bring democracy to the Middle East. Without education reform, it will have all been for naught.

Tunisia: The First Arab Islamocracy

Why the West shouldn't fear sharia.

Springtime for Civil War

Shia radicalization. Iranian terrorism. Libya as lost cause. Our only hope lies in Egypt.

Blogs

Religion, Ethnicity, and the Virtue of Blurry Lines

Can a small pocket of Jewish Arabs in Yemen defuse the clash of civilizations? And what does that have to do with whether or not Obama is a Muslim?

Books & Reviews

Eating Vichyssoise in Athens

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?

Revivalism, Shi‘a Style

Energized Shi‘a represent a powerful challenge to Sunni extremism and jihadism.

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

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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February 12, 2012