The following is a collection of commentary about members (current or former) of The Europe Center found on various external, unaffiliated websites via an automated process:

November 3, 2012

Syria is Central to Holding Together the Mideast

Mention of Condoleezza Rice via Washington Post

Condoleezza Rice: "The civil war in Syria may well be the last act in the story of the disintegration of the Middle East as we know it. The opportunity to hold the region together and to rebuild it on a firmer foundation of tolerance, freedom and, eventually, democratic stability is slipping from our grasp." Read more »

July 26, 2012

US must recall it is not just any country

Mention of Condoleezza Rice via Financial Times

Condoleezza Rice: "The list of US foreign policy challenges is long and there will be a temptation to respond tactically to each one. But today’s headlines and posterity’s judgment often differ. The task at hand is to strengthen the pillars of our influence and act with the long arc of history in mind." Read more »

May 31, 2012

Time to Join The Law of the Sea Treaty

Mention of Condoleezza Rice via Hoover Institution

Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz, Condoleezza Rice: The U.S. has more to gain by participating in convention deliberations than by staying out. Read more »

May 9, 2012

The European Revolt Against Reality

Mention of Josef Joffe via Wall Street Journal

Josef Joffe: "Forget for a moment François Hollande, who sent Nicolas Sarkozy packing on Sunday. Set aside, too, the triumph of the radical left and the neo-Nazis in Greece who together captured one-third of the vote. Look instead at Europe's real mess: the ..." Read more »

March 21, 2012

Education keeps America safe

Mention of Condoleezza Rice via CNN

Condoleezza Rice and Joel Klein: "America's greatest strengths stem from the freedom to innovate, create, compete and succeed. Without a wide base of educated and capable citizens, our strengths will fade, and the United States will lose its capacity to lead in the international community..." Read more »

March 8, 2012

The promise of Russia's urban middle class

Mention of Condoleezza Rice via Washington Post

Condoleezza Rice: "The election of the once and future president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, tempts one to despair that the brief and inspiring political awakening in Russia over the past year was for naught. He ..." Read more »

Opinion: Eurozone must muddle through

Mention of Josef Joffe via Prague Post

Josef Joffe: "As one of the early skeptics of the European monetary union, events are now proving me and other critics right. But I am not going to take a cheap, I-told-you-so shot at the most ambitious integration project in the history of Europe ..." Read more »

February 27, 2012

Why Nobody Will Help the Syrian People

Mention of Josef Joffe via New Republic

Josef Joffe: "When interests meet ideals in the arena of states, ideals lose out. How shall we count the ways? In recent times, there were Somalia, Rwanda and Darfur—the massacres and the ethnic cleansing dwarfing anything happening in Syria or, last summer, in Libya. In ..." Read more »

February 10, 2012

Air campaign set unethical precedent in Iraq, prof says

Mention of Priya Satia via The Stanford Daily

Associate Professor of History Priya Satia B.A., B.S. ‘95 delivered a talk entitled “The Defense of Inhumanity: Air Control and the British Idea of Arabia” Thursday at Annenberg Auditorium. The talk was part of the Ethics and War Series sponsored by the Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society. Read more »

February 9, 2012

How Europe Views the US Presidential Campaign

Mention of Josef Joffe via Council on Foreign Relations

Despite their ongoing economic troubles, Europeans are closely following the U.S. presidential campaign, says Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of the leading German newspaper Die Zeit. Read more »

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