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- In this new book, Brendan Donnelly and Hugh Dykes, both former Conservative parliamentarians, critically review British attitudes towards the European Union, particularly those of the media and political classes. They...
- Federal Union held its AGM and annual conference on 17 March 2012. The morning session, entitled “Can the European Union be saved?”, looked at the European treaty agreed at the...
- By John Parry Review of “The Council of Europe” by Martyn Bond (Routledge Global Institutions Series, price £75 hardback) It was summer 1949. In the village of Le Hohwald, tucked...
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- How the world turns - 20/05/2012It is not only the world of politics that is turned upside down by the European banking crisis and the ineffectual way in which political leaders are dealing with it. ...
- Authentic euroscepticism - 20/05/2012A very interesting article in the Daily Telegraph last Friday by Jeremy Warner (read it here) sums up the eurosceptic dilemma and reveals the perverse nature of the way they...
- Overwhelming - 18/05/2012This blog has described before the difficulties associated with Greek departure from the eurozone. It would reduce the Greeks to a cash or even barter economy for a while, and...
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US foreign policy Archive
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Is there a war on terror?
Posted on 16/01/2009 | No CommentsBritish foreign secretary David Miliband has declared, in a change to what was understood to be previous policy, that the UK is not involved in a war on terror. (Read his article in the Guardian here.) President Bush famously introduced the term as a rallying... -
Victoria Nuland: An ESDP with only soft power is not enough
Posted on 10/12/2008 | No CommentsFrom a speech by Victoria Nuland, United States Permanent Representative to Nato, at the Presse Club and AmCham, Paris, France, 22 February 2008: “An ESDP with only soft power is not enough…the US needs, the UK needs, NATO needs, the democratic world needs a stronger,... -
What caused the financial crash?
Posted on 10/12/2008 | No CommentsProfessor Stephen Haseler launched his new book yesterday, “Meltdown: How the Masters of the Universe Destroyed the West’s Power and Prosperity”. (The term “Masters of the Universe” was used to describe financial executives on Wall Street during the 1980s.) As you might imagine from the... -
What Barack Obama does next
Posted on 06/11/2008 | 2 CommentsThe newspapers and airwaves, having speculated and then reported on the outcome of the US election, are now speculating about what it means. The biggest significance will be for American domestic policy and race relations, which are really outside the topic of this blog, but... -
A moment of goodwill
Posted on 04/11/2008 | No CommentsA notable characteristic of American foreign policy has been the extent of continuity from one president to the next. There are exceptions, of course, but fewer than you might think. George W Bush has been misunderestimated, for example, in that the global contest with Islamist... -
Change in America
Posted on 05/09/2008 | 1 CommentEvery other blog is writing about Sarah Palin, Republican nominee for vice-president of the United States, so why shouldn’t this one. Not for Federal Union, though, speculation about her private life or her daughter’s private life: instead, a reflection on geopolitics and the future of... -
Cultural imperialism
Posted on 25/07/2008 | 1 CommentFunny how the people who object to American sports such as NBA or NFL games being held in Europe do not object when an instalment of the American presidential election campaign comes to town. Democrat candidate Barack Obama was greeted by an adoring crowd in... -
The next American foreign policy
Posted on 18/07/2008 | 1 CommentIt is the habit of this blog to look at major foreign policy speeches, and who better to report on than Barack Obama, the increasingly likely winner of the American presidential election in November. While Federal Union is strictly speaking a British organisation, American foreign... -
A landslide for Obama
Posted on 30/05/2008 | No CommentsA survey published in today’s Daily Telegraph reports that Barack Obama beats John McCain by a landslide, as long as the voters are European. (Read the survey results here.) I don’t suppose that is very surprising: the US Democrats are closer in thinking to most... -
Europe and America: together or apart?
Posted on 28/02/2008 | No CommentsBy Richard Laming In looking at the subject of Europe and America, I am going to talk about the background, and then look ahead with some specific questions which I hope we will find interesting to discuss. First, the background, which I can summarise by...
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