by Tom Robinson
It’s not every day that you open a major British newspaper and read a headline like this: “Rise of the Fourth Reich, How Germany Is Using the Financial Crisis to Conquer Europe” (Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, Aug. 17, 2011). Many observers are...
by Good News
A Newsweek article related a common viewpoint in its introduction, stating, "It's become all fashionable in Washington, Moscow and Beijing these days to dismiss Europe as an aging continent in terminal decline" (Nov. 16, 2009). But the...
by Darris McNeely
Europe will go through many more changes before its "dream" and destiny will appear.
by John Ross Schroeder
Chancellor Angela Merkel's noteworthy reluctance to part with large amounts of bailout cash has recently riveted European leaders' attention. Germany is increasingly beginning to negotiate from a strengthened position, fortified by the...
by Paul Kieffer
An old German proverb says that God's millstone turns slowly. Over the years the pace of developments within the European Union has also been slow, but things are changing.
by Good News
Tehran has coveted complete control over the narrow Strait of Hormuz—only 24 miles wide at its narrowest point—for many years. How important is this crucial Middle Eastern waterway?
by Melvin Rhodes
Great powers come and go. For more than six decades the United States has been the world's dominant power. Seventy years ago, Great Britain—with its vast empire—was the world's greatest power. Is the United States following Britain's path...
