China’s Path Not Taken
NEW YORK — This month marks the centenary of one of the most important cultural and political episodes in modern Chinese history: the May Fourth Movement.
Read MoreNEW YORK — This month marks the centenary of one of the most important cultural and political episodes in modern Chinese history: the May Fourth Movement.
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MADRID — In 1971, world leaders as varied as Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco, US Vice President Spiro Agnew
Read MoreCAMBRIDGE — I have worked for four US presidents, Democrats and Republicans alike, and perhaps the most important thing I have learned along the way is that little of what we call history is inevitable.
Read MoreLONDON — The fixation on the ongoing World Cup, during which an estimated one million foreign football fans, many from Europe and the United States…
Read MorePRINCETON – Since the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, Germans have looked back anxiously to the collapse of the Weimar Republic in the early 1930s and the rise of Nazism.
Read MoreCommémorer, sans récupérer, un événement largement perçu comme positif autant qu’il fut une révolution ratée: le cinquantenaire de Mai-68 donne lieu à une foultitude d’événements culturels et scientifiques…
Read MoreFor centuries, France and the United States have been friends, allies, and competitors. Both have been world powers;
Read MoreThanos Veremis
From the vantage point of Pristina or Athens, the Balkans will certainly yield two entirely different assessments of the region. The picture will be the more skewed if we look at the Balkans from Washington DC, Paris or Berlin. This new book by Thanos Veremis, Emeritus Professor of History at Athens University, contains a dense analysis of the subject from an array of geopolitical viewpoints.
Read MoreThe United States has never had a president like Donald Trump.
Read MoreIn expressing some thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the European Union, I would like to start by saying that in order to see what was achieved between the 25th March 1957…
Read MoreIn expressing some thoughts on the 60th anniversary of the European Union, I would like to start by saying that in order to see what was achieved between the 25th March 1957…
Read MoreLet us remain immune to wishful thinking from both the Right and the Left.
Α quarter of a century ago the “End of History” had been predicted. That was at the most triumphant moment of the total victory of Liberal Democracy over Marxist-Leninist totalitarianism …