Slovakia
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Thirty-five years ago the iron curtain collapsed. So ended a brief but tragic period in the European story first defined by Winston Churchill in a 1946 speech; “From Stettin in the Baltic, to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.” As communist regimes fell from Budapest to Berlin to Prague…
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Over the past eighteen months I have written four, long analytic pieces for the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), a Philadelphia-based think tank. The articles all focus on the roller-coaster politics of Central Europe, an area of the world near and dear to me. The latest of the four articles, focusing on the recent assassination…
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With the shocking assassination attempt of a leading American public figure at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on 13 July, the United States joined a growing list of western democracies falling victim to the scourge of political violence. Just over two years ago, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated by a lone gunman…
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