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The Myth of Europe II
In The United States of Europe, Reid argued that a new “Generation E” had emerged: transnationals who drink the same cocktails, shout for the same soccer teams, wear the same clothes, celebrate Europe Day on May 9, and cheer along to the Eurovision song contest. “The people of the New Europe — and particularly members of Generation E [...]
The Myth of Europe I
The euro crisis isn’t really about money. It’s about the fiction that Europeans ever existed at all. When the euro officially entered circulation at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2002, fireworks lit up the night sky across Europe to celebrate the scrapping of the French franc, German deutsche mark, Greek drachma, and a clutch [...]
After America
How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable Not so long ago, a high-ranking Chinese official, who obviously had concluded that America’s decline and China’s rise were both inevitable, noted in a burst of candor to a senior U.S. official: “But, please, let America not decline too quickly.” Although the inevitability of [...]
Central Asian Spring
Kazakhstan may not be ripe for revolution, but the West is making the same mistakes it made in the Arab world. Imagine the strongman leader of a strategic, Western-friendly, Muslim-majority nation blatantly rigging an election to exclude dissident voices from his puppet parliament. Ring any bells? A year after two Arab presidents, Tunisia’s Zine El [...]
Egypt’s Revolutionary Narrative Breaks Down
With Hosni Mubarak long gone, a heavily Islamist parliament in place, and the military in uneasy command of the country, who speaks for the revolution? CAIRO — On the first anniversary of Egypt’s revolution, the Semiramis InterContinental, a five-star luxury hotel overlooking Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, offered an espresso-stained postcard of the deep political and [...]
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