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... IN EUROPE Europeans are increasingly afraid of refugees fleeing war and violence in Syria and Iraq. World Policy Journal compares data from eight European countries, and concludes there’s little connection between refugees, crime rates, and xenophobia...

...Martin Walker Copyright © 2001 World Policy Institute 2001 M artin Walker, former U .S. bureau chief an d European editor o f The Guardian (London), is a public policy fellow a t the Woodrow Wilson International Center fo r Scholars in Washington, D .C . Europe...

... visiting associate professor a t the University o f Trento an d the Dickinson College Center fo r European Studies in Bologna. Tumbling Onto a Wider Stage Europe and the O utcom e o f the Italian Elections M ark Gilbert Italian politics can seem like a never...

.... Europe: Paradise Found? M ark Gilbert Last year, Europeans were from Venus, pean Union will gently sneer at the time Americans were from Mars. Or so said the and the effort Europe dedicated to negotiat­ neoconservative commentator Robert Ka­ ing the cod quota. gan, who published...

...Mark Gilbert Copyright © 2005 World Policy Institute 2005 M ark Gilbert teaches contemporary history a t the University of Trento in Italy. He is currently ivriting a political history o f Europe since 1968. Europe Looks for a New Narrative M ark Gilbert...

... World Policy Journal analyzes the emergence of far-right parties as a political force in Europe. ANATOMY RISE OF THE FAR RIGHT IN EUROPE Buoyed by fears of refugees, terrorism, and the European Union’s open borders, far-right parties have emerged as a political force. BEFORE...

... paychecks. Finally, in his Coda, World Policy Journal editor & publisher David A. Andelman chronicles the nature of disaster in Europe and Asia, as well as some lessons each can learn from the other. In our Anatomy feature, we probe the Common Agriculture Policy, the European Union’s biggest...

... a single attempt to set priorities, major events are treated no better nor worse than a car accident or a politician’s wife or mistress’s liposuction. So the tendency could be to declare the demise, the end of a flailing and divided Europe, as the end of history. Being an optimist—for this moment...

... of the Chinese Communist state Mao Zedong wrote in his Little Red Book . At the time, Mao was not thinking of Europe, certainly not Italy. Yet, today, Italy’s economy is weak, as its elite struggle to maintain order, but its geography and its assets attract a great deal of interest from China. Italy...

... regulatory ambitions. There is no nook or cranny of human activity in Europe that is not affected by it. As a gauge of the sheer amount of material that comes out of Brussels, consider this: Every year, the EU prints between 700 and 800 editions of its Official Journal , which compiles the decisions...

... in 2003. “A Fiasco But Not a Disaster” Europe’s Search for a Constitution Mark Gilbert The European Union is no stranger to crisis, clude some of the EU’s new intake.1 These but there is little doubt that its latest row countries are heavily dependent upon Ger­ over...

... on U.S. politics, including More Equal Than Others (Princeton, 2004). He is working on a biography of President Wilson’s adviser, Colonel House, for Yale University Press. “Great Vote, Grisly Result” Europe’s Reaction to the Reelection of George Bush...

...Jytte Klausen Copyright © 2005 World Policy Institute 2005 Jy tte Klausen is professor of comparative politics a t Brandeis University and the author o f The Islamic Challenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (Oxford University Press). Europe’s Muslim Political Elite...

... . I’d timed my arrival to coincide with the opening of the conference of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), one of many efforts during the depths of the Cold War to facilitate dialogue between East and West—the two halves of a very much divided, and at times hostile, Europe...