Some weekend reading

Posted on December 11, 2004 by Nosemonkey

• Jaques Derrida on the meaning of Europe
• Former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on the democratisation of Europe
• Commentary Magazine on The Islamisation of Europe (But the Times takes the opposite view)
• North Sea Diaries on how the EU is pissing Turkey around
• Foreign Affairs on the sources of US legitimacy
• The New Statesman on the United States’ democratisation of the world
• Transatlantic Intelligencer on the myth of US funding for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution
• Timothy Garton-Ash on why the Orange Revolution is great
• An in-depth look at the Rocco Buttiglione affair by the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
• Is Europe split by religion?
• The National Review askes “who are the Ents of Europe?”
• Idaho and ETA
• The London News Review – “you’ve got to hand it to the Basque bombers”
• Personal Democracy on the impact of blogging on politics
• What’s wrong with populism?
• The Times on a worrying situation in Germany
• The New Left Review on a worrying development in Japan
• An even more worrying development in Russia