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Tag: Europe

The tangled legacy of the Swedish experiment.

Simon Torracinta

How it rose, fell, and may rise again.

Peter E. Gordon

Bertrand Tavernier’s daring documentary about the Algerian revolution sought to break the silence in France.

Jonathan Kirshner

On the situation in Germany in the wake of October 7.

Peter E. Gordon

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

Julie Michelle Klinger

Germany has responded to war in Ukraine with huge increases in defense spending, marking a new wave of militarization.

Stephen Milder

The tradition allows private and public life to meet, maintaining a baseline solidarity in civic life.

Jonathan Levy

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

Tobias Hübinette

Poland and Russia both think of Ukraine as a seat of authentic Slavic culture. Józef Czapski’s war memoir highlights how this has often clashed with Ukraine’s independence.

Marta Figlerowicz

Condemning Putin's war must go hand in hand with imagining a more just security order.

Rajan Menon
Selected by The New York Times as one of the best reads for context on the current conflict, our book on the unwinding of the post–Cold War order is now available for all to read.
Eugene Rumer, Rajan Menon

The war in Ukraine is shaped by global neoliberalism, sexism, and racism—not just Cold War dynamics.

Ileana Nachescu
Putin's war in Ukraine breaks the rules, but powerful states always do. Far from dying, a just global order remains to be built.
Simon Waxman

In the 1970s, gay and lesbian West Germans sought to forge political solidarity from sexual identity.

Samuel Clowes Huneke

In the most turbine-surrounded community in the world, poor residents understand that their loss—of land, jobs, and serenity—has nothing to do with the common good. Clean energy advocates should take notice.

David McDermott Hughes

Pushing back against the throw-away economy, the EU is designing an industrial policy around garbage.

Paul Hockenos

Center-left parties should learn that small-bore solutions are a waste of time.

Martin O’Neill

The fight over the American Jobs Plan reflects a long history of competing visions of public works—and, most of all, who should benefit from rebuilding.

David Alff
Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.
John R. Bowen

The country’s ruling party is suppressing research and cultural work on the role of ethnic Poles in the persecution of Poland’s Jews.

Mikhal Dekel

The Greens are on track to become Germany’s second strongest party. Was abandoning radicalism was the right choice?

Stephen Milder

A proposed French bill says so. But, strictly speaking, there can be no such thing as blasphemy within the terms of secular public order.

Nadia Marzouki, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
A recent report neglects to mention how France forced Arab Jews to adopt the European persona of Jew as citizen and see Arabs and Muslims as others.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.

William Callison, Quinn Slobodian

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