Europe
April 1999
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Title: The Revolutions of 1989 Reconsidered
Author: Peter Rutland
"The unease about the true significance of the events of 1989 is only reinforced by developments since then. No one expected that so many former communist managers would quickly shed their socialist colors and embrace the capitalist path. . .. As in all revolutions, ideas and assumptions were overturned and events developed in unexpected directions. Some communists turned out to be capitalists, and some capitalists turned out to be crooks."
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Title: Northern Ireland: An End to the Troubles?
Author: Deaglán de Bréadun
"Progress toward a lasting peace and normal society is slow, and the continuing political instability threatens to undermine the Good Friday accord at any time. But given that apparently insuperable problems have been overcome in the past, there is still reason to hope that we are on the threshold of a new era in the history of Northern Ireland--indeed, of the whole island."
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Title: Kosovo: America's Balkan Problem
Author: James Hooper
"The Kosovo problem is as much about the resolve of American leadership and the credibility of NATO as it is about the complexities of Balkan politics. . .. Neither the crisis in Kosovo nor the broader problems of instability in the Balkans will be resolved until the United States exercises political and military leadership to do so; this will require sustained presidential attention."
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Title: The Many Paradoxes of NATO Enlargement
Author: Johanna Granville
"Expanding NATO may represent a worthy attempt to improve the European security architecture. However, given its inherent paradoxes, NATO expansion is not in America's--or Europe's--best political, economic, and military interests."
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Title: Europe's Monetary Union: Creating a Democratic Deficit?
Authors: Andrew Martin and George Ross
European integration "appears to be increasingly undermining the political conditions for European democracy." Economic and monetary union, "the latest and most far-reaching step in integration, has deepened this democratic deficit."
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Title: Germany's Vote for a "New Middle"
Author: Russell J. Dalton
The election of a left-leaning government in Bonn that claims it is the new "center" of German politics may have launched a new era for Germany but it has not resolved the "political problems that undermined popular support for the Kohl government or public divisions on which course Germany should follow to address those problems."
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Title: New Labor in Britain: Avoiding the Past
Author: James E. Cronin
Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labor Party is "strongly committed to an essentially negative goal: it will not be seen as 'old Labor.' This commitment pervades the thinking of Blair and his colleagues and it imparts a unique dynamic to the party's behavior in government. It also means that Blair is unlikely to experience any serious challenge to his leadership for some time."
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Title: The Month in Review
An international chronology of events in February, country by country, day by day.
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Title: Perspectives
Vladimir Tismaneanu on Eastern Europe's Choice.
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Title: Europe
A map of Europe.
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