The Last European
Berlin Policy JournalMay 2016It all began with Greece. Having thought long and hard about it over the summer of 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel had come to a …
It all began with Greece. Having thought long and hard about it over the summer of 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel had come to a …
As the sober National Interest warns that America and Russia are “stumbling to war,” roughly four Western scenarios compete to explain where we stand in the year-old Ukraine crisis. Let’s call them the McCain, Mearsheimer, Motyl, and Merkel theses of, respectively, Russian aggression, Russian hegemonic privilege, Russian decline, and Russian paranoia. (part 1 of 2)