Andrew Moravcsik
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
Meguid's core insight is that small parties' success is due less to their intrinsic appeal than to the strategic choices made by big mainstream parties in their competition with one other.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
Schabert, a German professor with exceptional access to French sources, offers a uniquely well-documented treatment of Mitterrand's German diplomacy.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
This book is the leading German-language history of the events of 1989. In addition to summarizing the diplomatic history, it explains the reasoning behind West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's activist diplomacy.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
This volume exemplifies the new "international history" of 1989 -- more multilingual and more attentive to social and cultural underpinnings than traditional diplomatic history.
Capsule Review
Nov/Dec
2009
Sarotte's readable and reliable diplomatic history will no doubt take its place as the classic overview of this period.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2009
This slim volume makes the most persuasive case possible for the collective modernization and reform of European defense.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2009
Nothing is as seductive as a half-truth. Caldwell's is that immigrants to Europe cause serious problems because Europeans, overcome with leftist good intentions, have coddled them with generous welfare and tolerated their non-Christian values.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2009
This is a sober plea for what Védrine terms "smart realpolitik," on which he thinks the United States and Europe could agree.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2009
Evans' magisterial trilogy, of which this is the final volume, is the best account of the regime that caused World War II.
Capsule Review
Sep/Oct
2009
Marsh's book most readable overview available of European monetary cooperation, from Bretton Woods to today's European Central Bank.
Essay
Jul/Aug
2003
How can the United States and Europe mend the Western alliance after the split over Iraq? Some Europeans now favor engaging America head on, by building an independent military. But the best answer lies in complementarity, not competition. The two sides should focus on common goals, with each doing what it does best.
Review Essay
May/Jun
2001
Larry Siedentop's Democracy in Europe contrasts the tyrannical bureaucracy in Brussels with the federal republic that inspired Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. But the author's political nostalgia overlooks the European reality.
Review Essay
Sep/Oct
1999
A new book argues that blunt economic self-interest, not political idealism, was the great historical motor behind European integration.
