27 Dec, 2024
The Year Past and the Year Ahead
The Year Past and the Year Ahead by Mel Gurtov 1432 words The global citizen agenda for 2025 is very...
27 Dec, 2024
23 Oct, 2022
Europe’s far-right lurch
The struggle to save democracy is proving even more difficult in Europe than here in the US. Virtually every European country is bedeviled by rising conflict between traditional political parties on one side and far-right, sometimes neo-fascist parties on the other.
12 Aug, 2022
The great energy game in Europe
It won’t be long before winter descends on Europe. Before it does, most European countries must address the question of how long and how well they will be able to handle decoupling from Russian energy.
1 May, 2022
The coming Old New Order
A principal lesson of the war in Ukraine is that the Cold War never ended. German reunification, the Soviet Union’s collapse, new entries in NATO, democratic springs in Poland and Hungary, Ukraine’s independence, the removal of nuclear weapons from eastern Europe, including Ukraine—all these events once augured a new era in Europe.
21 Jan, 2022
How to Avoid War Over Ukraine
The threat of a major war hangs over eastern Europe. Four different negotiating forums between Russia and NATO on the Ukraine situation have not gone well.
13 Feb, 2019
The music that’s in all of us
“And suddenly the music burst through the borders. This was in May of 1999, in a city in the Netherlands...
21 Feb, 2017
Trump, Europe, and Chaos
“Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Defense James Mattis went to the Munich Security Conference with reassurances about the...