Can the European Union Be Salvaged? Can the European Union Be Salvaged?
New books by Timothy Garton Ash and Loukas Tsoukalis document the moral and political exhaustion of the “EU” generation.
Nov 28, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis
How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?
Mar 13, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
What Remains: On the European Union What Remains: On the European Union
How the twentieth century’s confidence in social solidarity, human dignity and a better future died a slow, quiet death.
Sep 5, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson deftly punctures the EU's self-serving myths, but his own pieties make him a better prosecutor than judge.
Apr 8, 2010 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
Mandarins, Guns and Money: Academics and the Cold War Mandarins, Guns and Money: Academics and the Cold War
Four authors examine the evolution of the social sciences and how academic theorizing impacted global affairs before and after Vietnam.
Sep 18, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
The Kosovo Dilemma The Kosovo Dilemma
The European Union needs to get Serbia focused on the future.
Mar 6, 2008 / Mark Mazower
Rambling Man Rambling Man
A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.
Jan 24, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
East West East West
Two new books explore Turkey's place in the world and what EU membership would imply for international affairs.
Apr 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower
The Middle Man The Middle Man
Over the century that followed the Napoleonic wars, the Ottoman Empire contracted and eventually disappeared from the map.
Aug 12, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mazower