- Jaques Derrida on the meaning of Europe
- Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on the democratisation of Europe
- Commentary Magazine on The Islamisation of Europe (But the Times takes the opposite view)
- North Sea Diaries on how the EU is pissing Turkey around
- Foreign Affairs on the sources of US legitimacy
- The New Statesman on the United States’ democratisation of the world
- Transatlantic Intelligencer on the myth of US funding for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution
- Timothy Garton-Ash on why the Orange Revolution is great
- An in-depth look at the Rocco Buttiglione affair by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
- Is Europe split by religion?
- The National Review askes “who are the Ents of Europe?”
- Idaho and ETA
- The London News Review – “you’ve got to hand it to the Basque bombers”
- Personal Democracy on the impact of blogging on politics
- What’s wrong with populism?
- The Times on a worrying situation in Germany
- The New Left Review on a worrying development in Japan
- An even more worrying development in Russia
Some weekend reading
December 11, 2004