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International Relations & Development
The EU’s unstoppable ambition is stirring up trouble for the future
Our national differences are the strength of this continent. And the more they are upset by Brussels’s bureaucratic bullies, the likelier a violent response becomes. The reasonable solution to the EU’s current crisis is orderly dismantlement, like the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in the 1990s. The longer political leaders deny this reality, the likelier a Yugoslavia will be instead.
Thierry Baudet,
City AM, 10 October 2012
The Crisis of Europe
How the Union Came Together and Why It’s Falling Apart
Timothy Garton Ash,
Foreign Affairs, September 2012
Put citizens at the heart of the Union
Europe today is suffering an erosion of representative democracy, citizenship and solidarity, making emerging from the crisis that much harder. If the Union cannot encourage an upswing in citizen participation it will not survive in its current form, warns a Polish columnist.
Jacek Żakowski,
presseurop, 14 September 2012
The Shattered Remains of US Middle East Policy
The shocking attack on the US consulate in Benghazi late on Tuesday that left four Americans dead abruptly revealed the fragility of America’s position in the post “Arab Spring” Middle East
Karl Sharro,
Al-Akhbar, 13 September 2012
The Tragedy of the European Union and How to Resolve it
I have been a fervent supporter of the European Union as the embodiment of an open society—a voluntary association of equal states that surrendered part of their sovereignty for the common good. The euro crisis is now turning the European Union into something fundamentally different.
George Soros,
New York Review of Books, 12 September 2012
Draghi alone cannot save the euro
Is there any way the ECB on its own could make it more credible that the eurozone will last? The answer is: yes and no.
Martin Wolf,
Financial Times, 11 September 2012
What Roosevelt would do in the South China Sea
Planting flags on islets, declaring cities where there are too few residents to fill a restaurant, and huffing and puffing over uninhabited rocks are acts more suited to a Gilbert and Sullivan farce than to nations in the 21st century.
James Clad and Robert Manning,
Financial Times, 4 September 2012
Big trouble in the East China Sea
A row between Japan, China and Taiwan over a few small islands reveals the arbitrariness of international relations.
James Woudhuysen,
spiked, 3 September 2012
For the Marxists ye have with you always
Capitalism was supposed to destroy the middle class, leaving a tiny clique of oligarchs ruling over a vast proletariat. In fact, capitalism has enlarged the bourgeoisie wherever it has been practised.
Daniel Hannan,
Daily Telegraph, 11 August 2012
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