Daedalus articles from March 1994

Daedalus archives from March 1994

Preface to the issue 'Europe Through a Glass Darkly.' (Daedalus Spring 1994 articles that explore changes in European politics and economics since 1964)
March 22, 1994... THREE DECADES AGO, IN THE WINTER OF 1964, Daedalus published the first of what, with the passage of time, became a collection of in-depth studies of contemporary Europe. In the beginning, it seemed reasonable to dwell principally on the...

Europe's identity crisis revisited. (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... ALMOST THIRTY YEARS AGO, I WROTE AN ESSAY for this journal about Western Europe which began by calling it prosperous and disunited. I then stated: "Europe today has no clear identity, no profile 'other than that which a process of...

Europe's contradictory communicative space. (changes in European social and cultural identity influenced by the re-emergence of national diversity and the importance of audiovisual media policy) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION THE POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE IDENTITY Has become a major issue in today's Europe. Any understanding of the European political scene must recognize the crucial role played by nationhood as a focus of collective loyalty....

Maastricht: before, during, after. (Maastricht Treaty and the creation of a single European union) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... THE MAASTRICHT TREATY OPENS With the following words: "By this Treaty, the High Contracting Parties establish among themselves a European Union." Later in the text one reads that the Union has been "concluded for an unlimited period."(1) A...

Germany's national and European interests: a country without national interests? (defining new goals under unification without fear of reawakening under past political nightmares) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... ARE PRESENT-DAY GERMANS WILLING to use the category of "national interest" in determining their foreign policy, or do they reject the idea entirely? Until recently the term was rarely heard when German politicians and the "chattering classes"...

Europe on the mark: ready to go? (prospects for the European economy and the long-term impact of an economic federation under the 1992 Treaty on European Union) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... INTRODUCTION LIKE AN ATHLETE WHO AFTER MANY YEARS of hard training is now set for the race and waits only for the starting signal, so the European economy, while achieving great success, has yet to deliver the full force of its promise....

The other velvet revolution: continental liberalism and its discontents. (the quiet decline of liberal influences in post-World War II Europe as exemplified by political developments in Germany, Italy and France) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... Seventy years have now passed since the publication of Guido De Ruggiero's Storia del liberalismo europeo, the last great history of the European liberal tradition and its national variants. At the time he wrote, De Ruggiero was a disciple of...

Democracy in Europe. (the case for Eastern European democracies as contrasted with the political forces that undermined democracy in Germany and Italy) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... This essay puts our current social science thinking about Eastern Europe's new democracies into historical perspective and presents a case for cautious optimism. There is no "scientific" prediction here--if our work on regime change bears any...

Russian backwardness and the future of Europe. (emerging political trends in Russia and their consequence for European security) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... For over two centuries Europe's geopolitical and ideological rivalry with looming, backward Russia has played a pivotal role in the continent's politics. Now Russia is poised between a tarnished hope in liberal reform and the growing fear that...

Who is 'Balkanizing' whom? The misunderstandings between the debris of Yugoslavia and an unprepared West. (flawed policies that created Yugoslavia after World War I and failed perceptions of its dissolution in the 1990s) (Europe Through A Glass Darkly: Daedalus Spring 1994 issue that explores changes in European politics and economics since 1964; includes bibliography)
March 22, 1994... Our Approach to the Yugoslav Tragedy is strewn with misapprehension. Yugoslavia was not, by definition, a "nation." The modern nation, endowed with a political identity, was built on the ethnic community, a collective characterized by cultural...