Future enlargement of the European Union Commentary

Slow Train to Brussels

Kathleen R. McNamara | Jun 25, 2009
The EU’s response to the economic crisis is limited because it has to be. The union has always balanced national interests with supranational ones.

European Disunion

Doug Bandow | Aug 05, 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.

A Mediterranean Membership Club

Leon Hadar | May 21, 2007
The United States should view Nicolas Sarkozy’s Mediterranean Union initiative as an opportunity for renewed translatlantic cooperation and burden-sharing in the Middle East.

Europe after the 'Non' and 'Nee'

Tim Potier | Jun 07, 2005
Only thirteen months ago the mood across Europe was so different, as fireworks lit up the skies to mark the accession of 10 new countries to the European Union - overwhelmingly former Communist countries from Central Europe.

The Transatlantic Dialogue in The National Interest

Nikolas K. Gvosdev | May 05, 2004
The transatlantic dialogue remains one of the premier issues for discussion in the pages of The National Interest and its weekly online supplement, In the National Interest.

Lessons To and From the Road to Hell: Ten Years after the Rwandan Genocide

J. Peter Pham | Apr 14, 2004
For better or worse, in democracies, politicians respond to the domestic pressure, which is seldom altruistic.

Thinking Beyond NATO

E. Wayne Merry | Feb 25, 2004
The Iraq conflict ignited transatlantic tensions smoldering since the end of the Cold War.

The Core That Wasn't

Martin Hutchinson | Feb 25, 2004
Has Britain joined France and German in a "super core" that will dominate the EU for years to come? Not for long, writes Martin Hutchinson.

Peculiarities of a Non-Strategic Partnership

Yevgeny Verlin | Feb 25, 2004
In short, relations between Moscow and Washington remain ambivalent. This ambivalence is increasing as the presidential elections in both countries approach.

Can Real Regulatory Reform Lead to Job Growth?

Stephen Boyko
Aron Gottesman
| Feb 11, 2004
The Bush Administration is feeling the heat.

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