Euromediterranean Partnership Articles

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.

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.

E Pluribus Confusio

John Van Oudenaren | Sep 01, 2001
The European Union is unable to achieve a true federal union, yet neither is it likely to fall apart. That leaves its internal incoherence as a long-term problem for the United States.

The Philosophy of 'Europe'

John Laughland | Mar 01, 1995
If the myth of destabilizing European nationalism continues to cast its spell over the decisions of Europe's political architects, then it will prove to be a self-fulfilling fantasy.

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