Europe

March 2009
The Dogs That Didn’t Bark: The EU and the Financial Crisis
by Daniel Gros
“The common action was hailed as a success for ‘Europe.’ In reality . . . the EU's response to the crisis illustrates the limitations of trying to manage a monetary union without a fiscal union.”

March 2009
Converging at the Center in Britain
by James E. Cronin
“Under Brown’s rather uncharismatic leadership, something like a new political and social settlement seems to be in place, and the best measure of that is how little a Tory government would alter it.”

March 2009
Spain Remade, Again
by Omar G. Encarnación
“The real legacy of the second transition is that it has revealed the hidden strengths of Spanish democracy. . .”

March 2009
Detours on the Balkan Road to EU Integration
by Lenard J. Cohen
“Throughout the western Balkans, formidable challenges to economic reform and democratic consolidation threaten to reawaken old problems and reinforce negative tendencies.”

March 2009
Can Europe Catalyze Climate Action?
by Jason Anderson
“Global warming is an issue that cries out for central policy coordination, and in many respects policy making in this area has paved the way for EU cooperation.”

March 2009
Perspective: Europe and Russia: Up from the Abyss?
by Andrew C. Kuchins
Lower oil prices and a new administration in Washington could help soften the Kremlin's assertiveness and thaw relations between Russia and Europe.

March 2009
Book Reviews: History the Victors Left Unwritten
by William W. Finan Jr.
A new book details the costs borne by civilians in countries liberated from German occupation at the end of World War II. The author explains why vindictiveness and revenge did not prevail thereafter.

March 2009
The Month in Review
by the editors of Current History
January 2009

March 2009
Map of Europe
by the editors of Current History
Map of Europe

November 2008
BOOK REVIEWS: Heroes Entwined: Gandhi and Churchill and Books in Brief
by Reviewers: Sumit Ganguly and William W. Finan Finan Jr.
Reviews of Books on South and Southeast Asia

May 2008
Europe's Enduring Anti-Americanism
by Michael Cox
"Anti-Americanism has embedded itself in a very profound way in Europe's foreign policy discourse. . . . This fact, more than any changes about to take place in the White House, will shape the transatlantic relationship for years to come."

March 2008
Italy’s Choice: Reform or Stagnation
by Michael Calingaert
"Probably the best hope for Italy is . . . a reorientation of the political landscape, in which the center-right and center-left coalitions shed some of their more troublesome supporters and move toward the center, whether together or not."

March 2008
Ukraine’s Orange Evolution
by Mark Kramer
"Democratic progress in Ukraine is still precarious, but the gains of the past few years mark a dramatic turnaround."

March 2008
The Baltics: Still Punching Above Their Weight
by Daniel S. Hamilton
"Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians . . . have stopped being recipients of aid and advice and have become innovators and contributors in their own right."

March 2008
European Politics Gets Old-Time Religion
by Timothy A. Byrnes
"The reintroduction of religious diversity into European society . . . is also reintroducing religion, and religiously motivated conflicts, to European politics."

March 2008
Energy and Democracy: The European Union’s Challenge
by Steve Wood
"Energy requirements could end up compromising a central feature of the eu's self-understanding and projected image: its role as a committed promoter of democratization and civil freedoms. . . ."

March 2008
The Transatlantic Turnaround
by Charles A. Kupchan
The Transatlantic Turnaround

March 2008
France Returns to Center Stage
by Ronald Tiersky
"Sarkozy's calculation is that France and Europe will achieve more by working with Washington than by working against it."

December 2007
The Ebbing Power of Turkey's Secularist Elite
by Jenny White
"It is not Islam that is the biggest challenge facing Turkey today, but rather the rise . . . of an intolerant, extreme form of nationalism."

March 2007
Angela Merkel’s Germany
by Jackson Janes and Stephen Szabo
"In part because of deadlock within the government on domestic policy, the chancellor has turned to foreign policy as her main stage."