Flashpoints: The Emerging Crisis in EuropeGeorge FriedmanAnchor Books, 2016, 264 pp., $21
Slippery Slope: Europe’s Troubled FutureGiles MerrittOxford University Press, 2016, 320 pp., $29.95
Europe Since 1989: A HistoryPhilipp Ther, trans. Charlotte Hughes-KreutzmüllerPrinceton University Press, 2016, 440 pp., $35
Medieval EuropeChris WickhamYale University Press, 2016, 352 pp., $35
Events in Europe over the past dozen years have been enough to give anyone world-historical whiplash. In 2004, the European Union brought ten new states into the fold, and its cheerleaders predicted that it would continue to expand, ushering in a geopolitical renaissance. Charles Kupchan, Mark Leonard, and others prophesied that the future would belong to …read more
Source: The American Interest
