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Essay, Nov/Dec 2009
Morton Abramowitz and Henri J. Barkey

Turkey hopes to be a global power, but it has not yet become even the regional player that the ruling AKP declares it to be. Can the AKP do better, or will it be held back by its Islamist past and the conservative inclinations of its core constituents?

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Snapshot,
Soner Cagaptay

Under the leadership of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkey's foreign policy is becoming more Islamist. Can the country's history of cooperation with the West survive?

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Essay, Sep/Oct 2009
Zbigniew Brzezinski

In the course of its 60 years, NATO has united the West, secured Europe, and ended the Cold War. What next?

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Essay, Sep/Oct 2009
Patrice C. McMahon and Jon Western

Bosnia was once a poster child for successful postwar reconstruction; today, it is on the verge of collapse. The 1995 Dayton accord ended a war, but it also created a fractured polity ripe for exploitation by ethnic chauvinists. 

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Essay, May/June 2009
Jennifer Lind

Japan should not apologize for its past aggression by emulating the contrition that Germany has displayed since the mid-1960s because it would risk a nationalist backlash. A more promising model is the one set by West Germany in the 1950s, which focuses on the future.

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Letter From,
Jeremy Shapiro

In the United Kingdom, backlash against workers from other countries in the European Union is growing. Any measures to limit foreign labor, however, may threaten the future of the European common market.

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Essay, Mar/Apr 2009
Constanze Stelzenmüller

Germany is a bridge between Russia and the West, and how Berlin chooses to deal with Moscow will set the tone for how the United States and the rest of Europe manage their own relationships with Russia.

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Essay, Jul/Aug 2008
James P. Rubin

How the United States can restore its relationship with Europe.

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Response, Jul/Aug 2008
James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel Posner, Jeremy Weinstein, Richard Rosecrance, Arthur Stein, and Jerry Z. Muller

Critics refute Muller’s assumptions about ethnic conflict; Muller responds.

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Essay, Mar/Apr 2008
Robert Kuttner

Denmark has forged a social and economic model that couples the best of the free market with the best of the welfare state, transcending tradeoffs between dynamism and security, efficiency and equality. Other countries may not be able to simply copy the Danish model of social democracy, but it nonetheless offers important lessons for governments confronting the dilemmas of globalization.

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