International Affairs Forum

Tue. April 29, 2025

Social Media: Europe

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The Things Labour Unions Are Up To

European labor unions are looking more and more like political organizations as interested in "changing society" as they are in negotiating good wages. By Anthony de Jasay. (Library of Economics and L... Read More...

Good Unintended Consequences

Despite EU claims of becoming the most dynamic economy in the world, business regulation in Europe is increasing, contributing to pitiful economic growth rates and the perpetual scourge of high unempl... Read More...

The War Against Terrorism, The EU's Response, and the Future of NATO

Lecture by Bernard Jenkin, M.P., Shadow Secretary of State for Defense in Great Britain. who argues that a strong NATO is vital to the war against terrorism. (Heritage Foundation, 3/7/2002) Read More...

Their Own Army?

Europe is about to create a unified military force. Done wrong, it could strain transatlantic relations and weaken European defense. By Philip H. Gordon. (Foreign Affairs, 7/1/2000, $) Read More...

Roma Rights, Roma Wrongs

Enforcement of EU human rights law and a growth in political consciousness may finally end the discrimination that the Roma have suffered for centuries. But already the backlash has begun. By James A.... Read More...

U.S. and Europe: Terrorism and the Middle East

Panel discussion with Hon. Ruprecht Polenz, a member of the conservative CDU party in the German Bundestag and member of the Bundestag’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Dr. Phillip Gordon, Director o... Read More...

Terrorism and Restrictionism: Their Impact on European Immigration Policies

A talk by Patrick Weil with comments by Mark Krikorian (Nixon Center, 5/8/2003) Read More...

European Security in the 21st Century

With the end of the Cold War, we are entering a new era in European security. A European defense force should be encouraged, but not at the expense of a healthy, expanded NATO. By W. Bruce Weinrod (... Read More...

EU membership could help stabilize Turkey

By Sam Wilkin and Marvin Zonis (Boston Globe, 11/23/2003) Read More...

A Geostrategy for Eurasia

The United States should begin paving the way to a transcontinental security system that will ensure Eurasia's future is more peaceful than its past. By Zbigniew Brzezinski. (Foreign Affairs, 9/1/199... Read More...

America and Europe: Clash of the Titans?

The euro's launch will transform the transatlantic relationship for good by placing Europe on an equal economic footing with the United States. An effective U.S. partnership with Europe is essential t... Read More...

Cherry - Picking: US and European Relationship

(Heritage Foundation, 6/11/2003) Read More...

Euro Fantasies: Common Currency as Panacea

The battle for the common currency may be remembered as one of the more useless in Europe's history. By Rudiger Dornbusch. (Foreign Affairs, 9/1/1996, $) Read More...

How Europe and America Defend Themselves

The great solidarity Europe showed America after September 11 has started to wear off, and real differences have opened up in the transatlantic pursuit of homeland security. Europe's reluctance to tak... Read More...

The Case for Privatization

By 2030, Social Security payroll tax rates will rise to 19 percent - more than 45 percent including Medicare and Medicaid. The solution is to phase out Social Security and other pay-as-you-go programs... Read More...

Europe and America

(Heritage Foundation, 10/10/1997) Read More...

U.S.-European Strategic Bargains: Old and New

Lecture by Kim R. Holmes. (Heritage Foundation, 11/13/1998) Read More...

Europe's 'New' Third Way

(Heritage Foundation, 5/11/1999) Read More...

The United States and Europe in the 21st Century: Partners or Competitors

(Heritage Foundation, 3/20/2000) Read More...

The Third Way and Liberty: An Authoritarian Streak in Europe's New Center

A curious authoritarian streak runs through the Third Way rhetoric of Tony Blair and other European leaders. The new center is ominously silent about freedom. By Ralf Dahrendorf. (Foreign Affairs, 9/1... Read More...

Europe's Next Big Idea: Strategy and Economics Point to a European Military

After unifying its currencies, Europe is trying to build its own army. The idea is good strategy and better economics. By Richard Medley. (Foreign Affairs, 9/1/1999) Read More...

BBC In Depth: Getting CAP in Hand

Europe's Agriculture ministers have reached agreement on the biggest shake-up in EU farming since the creation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The aim is to wean farmers off the drip-feed sub... Read More...

BBC In Depth: EU's Darkest Hour

Spring 1999 was supposed to be the European Union's finest hour, as its Economic and Monetary Union finally got underway. Instead, the union was thrown into turmoil. (3/29/1999) Read More...