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The divided map of Europe

Murad Nasibov (CSPD): A Mosaic of the Concept of Europeanization? Pablo Cristobal Jimenez Lobeira (CSU): Now Let Us Make Europeans: Citizenship, Solidarity and Identity in a Multicultural Europe. A review of In Another World: Among Europe’s Dying Villages by Tom Pow. Instead of debating the future of Europe, liberals are content with retreating to the fake idyll of the nation-state. Robert D. Kaplan on the divided map of Europe: The Continent’s many identities and fault lines stretch back into the nether centuries of European history. The European atrocity you never heard about: In the largest episode of forced migration in history, millions of German-speaking civilians were sent to Germany from Czechoslovakia and other European countries after World War II by order of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. The Iron Curtain’s Comeback: How the death-strip turned into a biodiversity Eden, and why its story is emblematic of Europe's problems today. From Le Monde diplomatique, a special section on Europe’s contested geography (and more and more and more). From Past Horizons, a look at how Europe was repopulated as the Ice Age ended.