The coming years will shape Europe's long-term future. Will the EU ever accept Turkey as "European?" Will NATO ever return to its Cold War usefulness? Can America and a newly-powerful European bloc ever get along?
From October 2005
Turkey and the EU
The EU has now begun accession negotiations with Ankara. After centuries of trying to join the European club, has Turkey's time finally come?
US Interests and the EU Constitution
The debate over the current incarnation of the EU Constitution seems at an end. But the larger debate about the future of Europe and trans-Atlantic relations has just begun.
Europe's Muslim Future
Demographic trends in Europe mean that a Muslim majority may emerge before the end of this century.
The North Atlantic's Tenuous Organization
2005 sees a very different NATO than won the Cold War. New members and Europe's expansion are important issues, but not as important as the violent fundamentalist terrorism that threatens both sides of the Atlantic.
Countering Putin’s Gambit
It is a realist aphorism that power, like nature, abhors a vacuum. The fall of the Soviet Union left more than a dozen weak and...
GW Grad Warns Against U.S. Imperialism
On October 12 2004 the Elliott School hosted Ivan Eland, Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute in Oakland, CA....