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Brexit’s Borderlands: What Leaving the EU Will Mean for Peace in Northern Ireland
When former British Prime Minister David Cameron urged his countrymen not to vote to leave the EU and raised the specter of war in a...
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Nov 1, 20177 min read


The Maltese Election: Making Sense of 95 Percent Turnout
92.95 percent. 93.30 percent. 95.70 percent. No, these figures are not Rotten Tomatoes ratings of Humphrey Bogart’s The Maltese Falcon....
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Oct 6, 20165 min read
The Irish Political Paralysis
Irish politics are in a state of paralysis — the recent general elections resulted in a hung Dáil (the lower house of the Irish...
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Mar 28, 20165 min read


Ireland Jumps: Will Others Follow?
Ireland, Angela Merkel’s sickly child, has decided to go off on its own. After taking an $87 billion European bailout to survive its...
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Jan 25, 20145 min read


Austerity and its Discontents
My tour of European austerity’s next stop is Germany. However, I have criticized austerity without putting it into context. I have simply...
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Oct 15, 20123 min read
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