Word: continentality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other players have their own reasons for trying to breathe life into CSCE in spite of its diversity and its unwieldy rule of unanimity. There is, to begin with, a widespread European weariness with confrontation and an eagerness to organize the Continent as a whole. Many on both sides hope...
With the Soviet decline and the emergence of a prosperous and uniting Europe, the U.S. contribution to the Continent's defense and political stability, while still important, will diminish. That is as it should be. The fact that the U.S. is standing aside as the Germans give economic aid to...
The imminent shift of the national capital from Bonn in the West to Berlin in the East only underscores the insecurity that many felt when Germany signed a non-aggression accord with the Soviet Union this summer. To these people, the best way to deal with Germany is to integrate...
But what failures! Garcia Marquez, like so many modern Latin American writers, sees the continent as a vast and howling tragedy. Bolivar, a Venezuelan aristocrat educated in the liberalism of 18th century Europe, vainly tries to plant progressive ideas in a New World dominated by Spain, a nation bypassed by...
When Pope John Paul II concludes his 10-day tour of Africa this week with a stop in the Ivory Coast to visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, he will be consecrating the biggest church on the African continent. But critics of the structure, which cost...