PARIS – This September, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, took the bold step of directly asking the United Nations to grant official recognition to the state of Palestine. The UN’s 193 member states look geared to vote on that request within the next few months. The world’s...
Europe’s integration project is historically unprecedented. For the past millennium, Europe has lived in an uneasy equilibrium, giving birth to every great empire that dominated and pacified the world in the last 500 years. Its eight or nine principal nations made war on each other whenever one...
Economics and politics have been uneasy allies in the process of European unification. From the moment Europe’s coal and steel industries were merged in an effort to prevent future wars on the Continent, the “European project” has often relied on economic interests to propel itself forward. Now,...
