Word: communisme
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...should not surprise us. Countries have different interests. For a half-century, anticommunism papered over those differences, but communism is gone. Europe lives by Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Alliance with America is no longer a permanent interest. The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead. It died...
Democracy's heroes don't always make heroic Presidents. Lech Walesa toppled Polish communism in the 1980s, but presided over a mediocre government in the 1990s. Many fear the same will be true of Mexican President Vicente Fox. Riding a wave of hope and optimism in 2000, Fox defeated the dictatorial Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled Mexico since 1929. But since then, he's faced mostly legislative defeats and diminished stature. It wasn't until last week, when George W. Bush finally proposed the U.S. immigration reforms that Fox has long urged, that Fox got to savor...
...should not surprise us. Countries have different interests. For a half-century, anticommunism papered over those differences, but communism is gone. Europe lives by Lord Palmerston's axiom: nations have no permanent allies, only permanent interests. Alliance with America is no longer a permanent interest. The postwar alliance that once structured and indeed defined our world is dead. It died...
...When the Iraq war began, the French Foreign Minister refused a reporter's question as to which side he wanted to win. This was not a mere expression of pique. When the existential enemy was Nazism or communism, the world rallied to the American protector. But Arab-Islamic radicalism is different. Its hatreds are wide, but its strategic focus is America. Its monument is ground zero. Ground zero is not in Paris...
...National TV as well as the company's 18 radio stations and three newspapers, will manage next year's launch of a 24-hr. news network and a movie channel. But they must survive a marketplace that has been flooded with local and foreign stations since the fall of communism. Romania's 3.3 million cable subscribers are split among 260 cable companies, according to the Romanian Cable Communication Association. That can't last long, says Radu Petric, the group's president: "I foresee a struggle for survival in the coming years...