What We're Reading
Handpicked by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the following content is among the most interesting pieces of media on contemporary Europe found across the web.
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August 2019
Deutsche Welle
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Germany remembers 'Holocaust by bullets' in Ukraine
- Between 1941 and 1944, German soldiers and police shot and killed more than 1 million Jews in Ukraine. The German government now wants to raise awareness of this chapter in history.
The New York Times
Kyiv Post
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Borys Gudziak: May the bell of liberty continue to ring
- Dear friend of the Nanovic Institute and 2019 Notre Dame Award recipient, Archbishop Borys Gudziak writes an op-ed on the eve of Ukraine's Independence Day.
The New York Times
July 2019
Acton Institute
The New York Times
Collateral
June 2019
Atlantic Council
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Why We Can't Get Enough of Ukraine by Francis Fukuyama
- Stanford Political Scientist Francis Fukuyama stresses the distinct role of education in making Ukraine succeed in the transition to the efficient nation-state and rule of law political system.
Cambridge University Press | Nationalities Papers
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Designing Empire for the Civilized East: Colonialism, Polish Nationhood, and German War Aims in the First World War by Mark T. Kettler
- This article by Mark T. Kettler, a Nanovic Institute Postdoctoral Research Associate, critically reexamines how Germans understood Polish national identity during World War I, and how their perceptions affected German proposals for ruling Polish territory.
First Things
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Eastern Catholics and the Universal Church by George Weigel
- The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia celebrated on June 4, 2019 the enthronement of its new Metropolitan-Archbishop, Borys Gudziak, 2016 Keeley Vatican Lecturer and recipient of the 2019 Notre Dame Award. The ceremony in the archeparchy’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception was preceded by two days of programs for pilgrims who had come to Philadelphia from all over North America. George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington, D.C.’s Ethics and Public Policy Center, presented this lecture during the Sunday program of the celebration.
May 2019
The Atlantic
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Democrats Need to Place China at the Center of Their Foreign Policy, by Thomas Wright
- Thomas Wright, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, writes about why Democrats ought to make China central to their foreign policy message.
The New York Times
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The New German Anti-Semitism, by James Angelos
- "For the nation’s estimated 200,000 Jews, new forms of old hatreds are stoking fear."
NPR