Europe

March 2007
France’s Election-Year Disquiet
by Arnauld Miguet
"For a people usually passionate about all things political, the French appear to be completely disenchanted with politics and more especially with incumbent politicians."

March 2007
Romania, Bulgaria, and the EU’s Future
by Robin Shepherd
"Romania and Bulgaria enter a European Union that has stalled at a crossroads. It remains an open question how having them on board will influence the direction now taken."

March 2007
Turkey’s Fading Dream of Europe
by Omer Taspinar
"A complacent West could easily face the previously unthinkable question: 'Who lost Turkey?'"

March 2007
The Long and Leisurely Route: Coming of Age in Europe Today
by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
"In the first half of the twentieth century, Europeans went from childhood to adolescence to young adulthood, and they reached a settled young adulthood by their early 20s. No more."

March 2007
Europe and America in the Middle East
by Charles A. Kupchan
Europe and Americ in the Middle East

March 2007
The Historic Legacy of Tony Blair
by Vernon Bogdanor
"The public service and constitutional reforms undertaken by the prime minister represent historic achievements, but in recent years these have been overshadowed by the Iraq War. . . ."

October 2006
The Ukrainian Gas Crisis Revisited
by NIKOLAI SOKOV
"Russia's gas price policy, however badly and arrogantly executed, was perhaps not unreasonable. In fact, it may serve the long-term interests of the international community, and even Ukraine."

March 2006
Poland Provoked: How Women Artists En-Gender Democracy
by ELZBIETA MATYNIA
"It is women artists who, by entering into an open debate with central elements of the Polish cultural tradition, pose the main questions concerning the nature of democratic citizenship, toleration, and pluralism."

November 2005
A Too Perfect Union? Why Europe Said “No”
by ANDREW MORAVCSIK
Far from demonstrating that the European Union is in decline or disarray, the constitutional crisis demonstrates its essential stability and legitimacy."

November 2005
Europe’s Response to Radical Islam
by OLIVIER ROY
"The challenge is not to go at the roots of terrorism, as European government spokespeople never tire of saying. . . . The challenge is to prevent the radical fringe from finding a broad political base among the local Muslim population."

November 2005
The Balkans Ten Years After: From Dayton to the Edge of Democracy
by LENARD J. COHEN
"A decade after the Dayton agreement . . . progress is being made in the region's overall stability and democratic development. And the role of both Europe and the United States in Balkan affairs has changed dramatically."

November 2005
In Eastern Europe, Corruption in the Crosshairs
by RASMA KARKLINS
"If those responsible for grand corruption are called to account, this can significantly raise the credibility of anticorruption campaigns and galvanize public support for efforts to contain the pettier forms of corruption. . . ."

October 2005
Russia and the West: A Dangerous Drift
by MICHAEL MCFAUL
"Should Western leaders try to stop this perilous drift of disengagement? Yes. Can they stop it anytime in the foreseeable future? Not likely."

November 2004
All in the (Dysfunctional) Family? Transatlantic Relations after Iraq
by John Peterson
"What matters now are the modernization of the alliance and the development of a common agenda for the Middle East. Both tasks require the EU's emergence as a more effective global power."

November 2004
The Atlantic Alliance in Crisis
by Thomas Risse
"It is no longer possible to paper over the differences in joint communiques and attractive photo opportunities. What is needed is a new transatlantic bargain that includes a European response to the challenges of the Bush administration."

November 2004
Europe and America: The Economic Ties that Bind
by Johannes F. Linn
"Transatlantic economic relations will provide the glue that holds the partnership of America and Europe together even as conflicting interests in other areas may push them apart."

November 2004
Did Terrorism Sway Spain's Election?
by Charles Powell
"Whether or not they were right to do so, a significant number of Spanish voters assumed that the bombings in Madrid were related to the Aznar government's support for the war in Iraq, and reacted to them by seeking to vote his party out of office."

November 2004
The Unbearable Lightness of Democracy: Poland and Romania after Communism
by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
"Although the publics in Poland and Romania believe there are more similarities than differences in the quality of their lives after communism, external observers argue that Poland's democracy is qualitatively better than Romania's. The challenge is to explain why there is this difference when both countries are consolidated democracies inhabited by unsatisfied...democrats."

November 2004
Turkey and Europe: Will East Meet West?
by M. Hakan Yavuz and Mujeeb R. Khan
"For many Europeans, integration with a large Muslim country of 70 million people with a lower level of economic development and a much faster-growing population seems a daunting prospect. Equally daunting, however, may be a Turkey cast adrift...."

September 2004
China and Europe: The Emerging Axis
by David Shambaugh
"The China-Europe relationship will continue to grow and develop at a steady pace. Over time it will become a new axis in world affairs, and will serve as a source of stability in a volatile world."