Suchergebnisse

Can Europe tame the Balkans? This is the question that veteran journalist Elizabeth Pond poses in her timely and absorbing book. With rich detail and penetrating analysis, Pond first sets the scene of the 1990s' wars of Yugoslav succession and the region's yearning to join the European Union zone of peace and prosperity

Relations between the United States and Europe have declined in the early 21st century and are worse than at any time since the 1960s. This book examines the widening gulf and worsening acrimony between the United States and its traditional allies on the European continent

Images of Europe -- Prologue I: the fall of the wall -- Prologue II: Maastricht -- Post-cold war NATO -- Present at the second creation: European Monetary Union -- Present at the rebirth: Poland and Central Europe -- Absent at the rebirth: the Eastern Slavs -- EU "domestic" policy -- EU foreign policy

As the immediate threat recedes, the oligarchs who once personally financed Ukraine's defence seem to be trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. (Survival / SWP)

Hat Wladimir Putin eingelenkt oder gönnt sich der "Meisterstratege" im Kreml nur eine Ruhepause, um den Westen und die Regierung in Kiew bald aufs Neue auf dem falschen Fuß zu erwischen? Wer auch immer recht behält : die Ukraine steht vor unmöglichen Aufgaben, kann aber auf seine jungen Bürger bauen - und hoffentlich auf die EU. (IP)