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Books and IdeasMarch 13, 2013
No Exit? Greece’s Ongoing Crisis
How do Greece’s economists and writers explain its social predicament?
Mark Mazower
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CultureSeptember 5, 2012
What Remains: On the European Union
How the twentieth century’s confidence in social solidarity, human dignity and a better future died a slow, quiet death.
Mark Mazower
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Non-fictionApril 8, 2010
Anderson’s Amphibologies: On Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson deftly punctures the EU’s self-serving myths, but his own pieties make him a better prosecutor than judge.
Mark Mazower
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Foreign PolicySeptember 18, 2008
Mandarins, Guns and Money: Academics and the Cold War
Four authors examine the evolution of the social sciences and how academic theorizing impacted global affairs before and after Vietnam.
Mark Mazower
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Regions and CountriesMarch 6, 2008
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HistoryJanuary 24, 2008
Rambling Man
A modern-day Rip Van Winkle challenges the view that Europeans are too wrapped up in their past to move on.
Mark Mazower
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Global OrganizationsApril 20, 2006
East West
Two new books explore Turkey’s place in the world and what EU membership would imply for international affairs.
Mark Mazower
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Foreign PolicyAugust 12, 2004
The Middle Man
Over the century that followed the Napoleonic wars, the Ottoman Empire contracted and eventually disappeared from the map.
Mark Mazower