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Greece and the Unlearned Lesson of 1990

Posted by on Feb 5, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured | 0 comments Greek voters have decisively repudiated the economics of austerity by handing an overwhelming victory to the left-wing party Syriza in their recent parliamentary elections. This was not a big surprise. Greece has been suffering from high levels of unemployment, including a rate higher than 50 percent for young people. The standard of living for much of the population has dropped precipitously...
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The Collapse of Europe?

Posted by on Feb 1, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured, US Foreign Policy | 0 comments Europe won the Cold War. Not long after the Berlin Wall fell a quarter of a century ago, the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States squandered its peace dividend in an attempt to maintain global dominance, and Europe quietly became more prosperous, more integrated, and more of a player in international affairs. Between 1989 and 2014, the European Union (EU) practically doubled its membership...
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A Neanderthal Foreign Policy

Posted by on Jan 22, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured | 0 comments Neanderthals generally get a bad rap. If history is written by the winners, they are the world’s very first losers. After all, Neanderthals came out on the wrong end of the great evolutionary battle with our Homo Sapiens ancestors. Ever since, they have been portrayed as big, stupid, artless, lumbering brutes. Our smarter forebears wiped out the last trace of the creatures from Europe about...
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Europe’s Coming Battle

Posted by on Jan 15, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments In the first Crusade, on their way to fight the Muslim infidels in Jerusalem, the armed pilgrims asked themselves a provocative question: Why should we trek so far to kill people we barely know when we can just as well massacre infidels closer to home? And thus the crusaders of the 11th century embarked on some of Europe’s first pogroms against Jews. These anti-Semitic rampages in the heart of...
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Charlie Hebdo: Middle East Blowback?

Posted by on Jan 10, 2015 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Islamophobia | 0 comments The recent attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, which left a dozen editors, cartoonists, and policemen dead, has renewed concerns that blowback from the latest round of fighting in Syria and Iraq is finally reaching Europe. In a September 2014 video, the Islamic State (ISIS or IS) called on its militants and sympathizers around the world to kill “disbelievers” in the...
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NATO: Rebellion in the Ranks?

Posted by on Oct 30, 2014 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Security | 0 comments Vladimir Putin, the wily strategist of Russian revanchism, is well on his way to reconstructing the Warsaw Pact. That, at least, is what the pundits of The Washington Post are making it out to seem. Last week, Jackson Diehl penned a column on how Putin has driven a wedge between NATO and its easternmost members. Anne Applebaum, meanwhile, pins the failure to maintain quiet on the eastern...
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