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Regions Europe Western Europe

Western Europe

Editor’s Pick

Macron’s Flawed Vision for Europe

Persistent Divisions Will Preclude His Dreams of Global Power

Francis J. Gavin and Alina Polyakova

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How France Fell to the Far Right

Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World

Andrew Moravcsik

Until I Find You: Disappeared Children and Coercive Adoptions in Guatemala

Richard Feinberg

Centrist Antiestablishment Parties and Their Struggle for Survival

Andrew Moravcsik

The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public

Andrew Moravcsik

The Tame and the Wild: People and Animals After 1492

Richard Feinberg

The Rise and Fall of the Italian Economy

Barry Eichengreen

Financialization and Local Statecraft

Andrew Moravcsik

Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany

Andrew Moravcsik

A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War

The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End

Jessica T. Mathews

Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic

Andrew Moravcsik

The Rise and Fall of the People’s Parties: A History of Democracy in Western Europe Since 1918

Andrew Moravcsik

An Unsettled Nation: Moldova in the Geopolitics of Russia, Romania, and Ukraine

Andrew Moravcsik

How Not to Be a Politician: A Memoir

Andrew Moravcsik

When Disasters Come Home: Making and Manipulating Emergencies in the West

G. John Ikenberry

The Populist Moment: The Left After the Great Recession

Andrew Moravcsik

Europe’s Leadership Famine: Portraits of Defiance and Decay, 1950–2022

Andrew Moravcsik

Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change

Barry Eichengreen

The Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera

Andrew Moravcsik

Why Empires Fall: Rome, America, and the Future of the West

G. John Ikenberry

Southern Europe in the Age of Revolution

Andrew Moravcsik

Travels in the Americas: Notes and Impressions of a New World

Richard Feinberg

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire, and Race in the European Project

Andrew Moravcsik

Mussolini’s Grandchildren: Fascism in Contemporary Italy

Andrew Moravcsik

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream

Andrew Moravcsik

Communism’s Public Sphere: Culture as Politics in Cold War Poland and East Germany

National Questions: Theoretical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

The Wind Knows My Name

Richard Feinberg

Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Lawrence D. Freedman

National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

Andrew Moravcsik

1923: The Crisis of German Democracy in the Year of Hitler’s Putsch

Andrew Moravcsik

Protecting the Ballot: How First-Wave Democracies Ended Electoral Corruption

Andrew Moravcsik

Between Brussels and Beijing: The Transatlantic Response to the Chinese Presence in the Baltic Sea Region

Andrew Moravcsik

Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain

Andrew Moravcsik

Homelands: A Personal History of Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

The BBC and the Decline of British Soft Power

Simon J. Potter

Western Europe Is Still Falling Short in NATO’s East

A. Wess Mitchell

Europe’s Real Test Is Yet to Come

The Great Convergence

Branko Milanovic

Keeping Friends Closer: Why the EU Should Address New Geoeconomic Realities and Get Its Neighbors Back in the Fold

Andrew Moravcsik

Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500

Andrew Moravcsik

Retracing the Iron Curtain: A 3,000-Mile Journey Through the End and Afterlife of the Cold War

Andrew Moravcsik

The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War

Andrew Moravcsik

Spain: The Trials and Triumphs of a Modern European Country

Andrew Moravcsik

Germany Still Hasn’t Stepped Up

Sudha David-Wilp

Sunak’s EU Reset

Matthias Matthijs

The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus

The Long Shadow of Default: Britain’s Unpaid War Debts to the United States, 1917–2020

Barry Eichengreen

Tainted Democracy: Viktor Orban and the Subversion of Hungary

Andrew Moravcsik

The Lost Future: And How to Reclaim It

Andrew Moravcsik

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology

Barry Eichengreen

Scotland: The Global History, 1603 to the Present

Andrew Moravcsik

Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

Andrew Moravcsik

Two Books on the Royal Navy

Lawrence D. Freedman

EU Industrial Policy in the Multipolar Economy

Andrew Moravcsik

Cyprus: An Ancient People, a Troubled History, and One Last Chance for Peace

Andrew Moravcsik

The United Kingdom’s Existential Crisis

Disunited Kingdom

Democracy Erodes From the Top: Leaders, Citizens, and the Challenge of Populism in Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes

The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares

Andrew Moravcsik

A Troubled Constitutional Future: Northern Ireland After Brexit

Andrew Moravcsik

Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

France: An Adventure History

Andrew Moravcsik

Germany’s Unlearned Lessons

Liana Fix, Thorsten Benner

Die globale Zeitenwende

The Global Zeitenwende

Biden and Macron’s Historic Opportunity

Marie Jourdain , Célia Belin

How Britain Stumbled

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK

Andrew Moravcsik

Foreign States in Domestic Markets: Sovereign Wealth Funds and the West

Andrew Moravcsik

Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die

Andrew Moravcsik

The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933

Andrew Moravcsik

Do Elections (Still) Matter?: Mandates, Institutions, and Policy in Western Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

Can Sunak Save Britain?

How to Trump-Proof the Transatlantic Alliance

Italy’s Election Paradox

The Queen’s Diplomacy

Books for the Century: Western Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

Britain After Ukraine

Germany’s Ukraine Problem

Wolfgang Ischinger

How Brexit and Boris Broke Britain

Leslie Vinjamuri

France’s Perilous Political Deadlock

Robert Zaretsky

The Real End of Pax Americana

The War in Ukraine Will Be a Historic Turning Point

Christoph Heusgen

Trading With the Enemy: Britain, France, and the 18th-Century Quest for a Peaceful World Order

Andrew Moravcsik

Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties

Andrew Moravcsik

Greater: Britain After the Storm

Andrew Moravcsik

The Normans: Power, Conquest, and Culture in 11th-Century Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler

Andrew Moravcsik

France’s Election Shouldn’t Have Been This Close

What China Can Learn From German History

Sergey Radchenko, M. E. Sarotte

Will Germany Stay the Course?

Daniela Schwarzer

Macron’s Mess in the Sahel

A New Germany

Sudha David-Wilp, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff

We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Andrew Moravcsik

The Last Neoliberal: Macron and the Origins of France’s Political Crisis

Andrew Moravcsik

Pandemonium: Saving Europe

Andrew Moravcsik

My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious Illusion

Andrew Moravcsik

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