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Can anything perk up Europe?

The inaugural issue of Eastern Journal of European Studies is out. Scott Nicholas Romaniuk (Carleton): Europe’s "Dual" Challenge: The Shifting Frontiers of NATO and the EU. Eric Engle (Harvard): A Viking We Will Go! Neo-Corporatism and Social Europe. Sanja Ivic (Belgrade): Rethinking EU Citizenship: Towards the Postmodern Ethics of Citizenship. George Soros on the crisis and the euro. Crisis in the EU: There are very real problems with the European project, but the eurozone isn’t going anywhere. Calling time on progress: Europeans thought they were progressing towards an ideal civilisation, but now time is up, and it hurts — can anything perk up Europe? Paul Blokker on confrontations with modernity: Openness and closure in the other Europe. More on Perry Anderson's The New Old World. A review of Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe by William Brown, Dina Iordanova and Leshu Torchin. Dimiter Kenarov on traveling along the Danube into the heart of the new Europe. From Reartikulacija, Stas Kleindienst on European conscience and totalitarianism. Philip Nord on how European socialism isn't as socialist as you might think. The EU is more divided, diverse and polarised than the USA — but in the EU, the lines of tension are forming worryingly close to the political centre. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the US and Europe are radically different, but the facts show that the contrast between the two continents is not particularly dramatic. America's ignorant, narcissistic anti-Europeanism is an embarrassment.