May, 2017 Europe

Original Article Post Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Macron’s Election


By Dr. Tsilla Hershco 
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 473

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Emmanuel Macron’s election as France’s president by an impressive majority was met by widespread relief in most of the EU countries and in the western world. It would be a mistake, however, to ignore the deep divisions in French society that the election revealed.

Europe, Politics

Original Article Post Date: Monday, May 22, 2017
BLACK SEA REGION

 
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Caucasus - Central Asia, Energy, Europe, Geopolitics

Original Article Post Date: Monday, May 22, 2017
F-117 Kosovo

Ted Galen Carpenter
Washington, DC perpetuated and deepened its Balkan blunder a few years after the Bosnia intervention when it intervened in Kosovo. Civil strife in Serbia’s restless, predominantly Albanian province, simmered and then flared in the mid-and late-1990s.

Europe, Geopolitics, History, International Relations, Politics, Russia, United States