What Is Europe?
Europe Since 1989 is a book about neoliberalism in Europe written by someone who doesn’t know what neoliberalism is, and hasn’t really paid much attention to Europe.
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Want to think about Europe like Philipp Ther? Close your left eye and look at the euro. At a certain distance the band-aid disappears. The same happens with the coins if you close your right eye and look at the band-aid. That's your blind spot.
What went wrong? The promise of a Europe of perpetual peace and prosperity has suffered a hit in recent years. From sovereign debt and eurozone turmoil to Brexit, the European project has been engulfed in crisis. For historian Philipp Ther, a partisan of Europe, unquestionably the biggest threat is renewed nationalism. And is it a […]