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Historian Mary Elise Sarotte tells the inside story of the west’s efforts to secure a post-cold-war settlement — and how Putin seized on missteps and Russian grievances to destroy it

Wer mit Hans-Helmut Kotz über Ökonomie oder Geldpolitik spricht, geht in der Regel nicht nur mit ein paar neuen klugen Gedanken aus dem Gespräch, sondern meist gleich auch mit einigen Lesetipps.

On the one-year anniversary of Guido Goldman’s passing, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) remembers its co-founding director with a preview of his recently published biography, Guido Goldman: Transatlantic Bridge Builder (Berghahn Books, 2021), and an interview with author Martin Klingst.

Read the interview.

What’s it like to read a book every day for several months so you can hash out with fellow judges which title deserves one of the most prestigious awards in literature? As chair of the 2021 Booker Prize’s judging committee, Maya Jasanoff knows the process inside and out.

This article examines Polish-Soviet, and subsequently Polish–Russian, relations through the lens of successive bilateral efforts to address “blank spots” in the shared history of these two neighbors.

Soccer star Marko Arnautović made headlines last week, less for the goal he scored in the 89th minute of his native Austria’s European Cup game against North Macedonia than for his post-goal antics.

In 1848, the Austrian Empire was ruled by the absolutist equivalent of a lame-duck emperor. In March, a peaceful demand for civil rights escalated into a full-fledged revolution. The emperor and his advisors were forced to flee the capital city of Vienna.

Depuis au moins le début de ce siècle, on constate une restructuration des systèmes politiques en Europe.

On December 15, 1991, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker arrived in Moscow amid political chaos to meet with Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, who was at the time busy wresting power from his nemesis, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.

The distribution of healthcare resources across local and global communities has triggered alarms throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Injustice and inefficiency in the transfer of lifesaving medical supplies are magnified by the urgency of the public health crisis, ramified through pre-existing socioeconomic tensions, and further aggravated by frictions that plague international cooperation and global governance.