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America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix... →
What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less... →
Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisfaction. In democratic societies, people often... →
Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic... →
For the Kremlin, it is more feasible to preserve its great-power status in cooperation with the United States than in confrontation.
It is people's willingness to take personal risks and confront the powerful by daring to speak the truth, not the truth itself, that ultimately... →
Remember, until the 1970s, the spread of democracy has always been accompanied by the decline of inequality. The more democratic our societies have... →
The crisis of democracy in the West is not the result of falling in love with another system. In Europe and America people who are disillusioned with... →
A more stable relationship between Poland and Russia based on reconciliation might revive the reunification of Europe.
The post-Cold War order in Europe is finished, with Vladimir Putin its executioner. Russia's invasion of Georgia only marked its passing. Russia... →
For the European Union, Russia is as important politically and economically as China is to the U.S.
The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned... →
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