Trump, Brexit: Where’s the Backlash?

Posted by John on Dec 30, 2019 in Articles, Europe, Featured, US Foreign Policy |
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0 comments I dutifully got a shot this winter to inoculate myself against four different flu viruses. By exposing myself to weakened strains of these diseases, and preemptively suffering some mild flu symptoms, I can ward off the more serious consequences of a full-on infection and do my part to help stop the further spread of these pathogens. Both the United States and United Kingdom came down with chills...
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The Far Right’s War on Culture

Posted by John on Oct 24, 2019 in Articles, Europe, Featured, Islamophobia |
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0 comments The far right is on a roll. Just a few years ago, liberals and conservatives would have considered its recent political victories a nightmare scenario. Right-wing extremists have won elections in the United States, Brazil, Hungary, India, and Poland. They pushed through the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom. In the most recent European Parliament elections, far-right parties captured the...
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It’s a Borderful World

Posted by John on Jan 7, 2019 in Articles, Featured, Russia and Eastern Europe, US Foreign Policy |
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0 comments Nation-states: what a quaint notion. As a means of organizing territory, they seem to be a brief transition period between large empires and an even larger, borderless world. Sure, nation-states might live on in the form of anthems and flags and independence days, but the idea of fixed borders just doesn’t make sense in a world of cell phones, the Internet, and global assembly lines. Borders...
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Europe Should Bolt NATO

Posted by John on Aug 12, 2018 in Articles, Europe, Featured |
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0 comments Donald Trump hasn’t shown a lot of love lately toward America’s European allies. On his recent trip to Europe, he dismissed Germany as Moscow’s minion and called the European Union a “foe.” He’s also treated NATO as an alliance to be bullied into submission rather than as the premier method of coordinating security policy with friendly nations. He even threatened to pull the United...
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Brexit Is a Wake-Up Call for Europe

Posted by John on May 12, 2017 in Articles, Eastern Europe, Europe, Featured |
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0 comments The European Union is a historic compromise that’s gradually gotten stronger over its half-century existence. Until 2016. That’s when British citizens, by a very narrow margin, voted to leave the European Union. It’s hard to come up with Brexit’s price tag for the British. The administrative costs alone of the separation will be about $60 billion. But that’s nothing compared to the...
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