Word: europeanize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...human-rights advocates, religious fundamentalists and free traders who claim China seeks to dominate all Asia. These doubters are ready to pounce on any misstep as an excuse for a policy of containment intended to force the communist leadership from power. Eager for China's markets, Clinton and his European allies had given China plenty of latitude, and it would be naive for Hong Kong to count too heavily on muscular intervention on its behalf. But if Beijing wants to be welcomed into the community of nations with the stature its size and wealth ought to command, China will have...
...Cold War's shadow no longer darkens Europe. But one specter from the past does remain. History teaches us that there is no natural geographic or political endpoint to conflict in the Balkans, where World War I began and where the worst European violence of the past half-century occurred in this decade. That is why the peaceful integration of Europe will not be complete until the Dayton Peace Accords in Bosnia are fulfilled...
...campaigned fiercely against both the left and the center-right. Forcing Chirac to share power with Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he argued, would deprive the President of a "blank check to dissolve the French nation into the Europe of Maastricht," referring to the treaty decreeing that the European Union will have a single currency and thus much closer economic and political integration in 1999. Moreover, Le Pen believed the Socialist victory would provoke a political crisis in which voters would turn to his anti-Europe, France-first movement to save the imperiled fatherland...
Though he was not a candidate, Le Pen, 68, gave full vent to his rabble-rousing style while stumping for fellow far-rightists last month. He declared that many incumbents "deserve to be hanged" for corruption. He provocatively denounced European integration as "Hitler's dream come true." At one rally, he walked onstage with a platter bearing a papier-mache head of his main Socialist nemesis, Strasbourg Mayor (now Communications Minister) Catherine Trautmann. But it was in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, where his daughter was running for parliament, that Le Pen really outdid himself. Taunted...
...crucial test will come next week, when Jospin and Chirac head to Amsterdam for the European Summit. There the ministers are due to approve the controversial, German-inspired "stability pact," intended to impose continued budgetary rigor once the euro is launched. But Jospin has denounced the pact as a "super-Maastricht." If he sticks to that position in Amsterdam, the launching of the euro could be delayed or even scuttled...