Tomorrow evening in the Chapel of the Resurrection in Brussels, a panel of speakers will address the topic of Robert Schuman’s dream and the future of Europe. The most challenging part of the evening–the future–has been given to me to…
The news is not so reassuring this week. Russian troops along the Ukrainian border threaten invasion. Extreme rightists in France make great gains in municipal elections. And the latest UN report predicts the impact of global warming to be ‘severe,…
‘Forget about the world being flat. Forget technology as the great democratizer. Forget the niceties of international law. Territory and the bonds of blood that go with it are central to what makes us human.’ So Robert Kaplan responds in…
A stone’s throw from the apartment where we stayed during a conference last week in the heart of the beautiful French city of Lyon was a street once ominously called Rue Maudicte, ‘street of the accursed’. Since renamed, this was…
Clearing out some drawers last week I came across a couple of old maps of the Crimea picked up on various visits to the peninsular over the past two decades. On one visit, I arrived in Simferopol after 19 hours…