European Institute

The European competition authority is challenging U.S. high-tech companies’ business practices, including some already approved by the anti-trust regulators in Washington.

"Googled, The End of the World as We Know It," by Ken Auletta, will not be the last book written about Google, but it is likely to be the definitive word on Google as adolescent.

Will it succeed in giving the EU a stronger voice on the world stage?

National emotions Have Growing Importance in Globalized Politics

Do emotions – and not just realpolitik or economics – play a key role in geopolitics? The thesis that they do powerfully shape international developments is masterfully argued by Dominique Moïsi in his latest book, The Geopolitics of Emotion: how cultures of fear, humiliation, and hope are reshaping the world (translated from the French for publication in New York: Doubleday, 2009).

Revisiting Fareed Zakaria's Famous Book

Fareed Zakaria’s provocatively-styled 2008 book 'The Post American World' was reissued this year in paperback with a new preface. Published in 2008, in the waning days Bush administration, with research and data closed out in 2007, the international best-seller seemed particularly relevant because the toxic effects of the Bush foreign policy swagger and unvarnished unilateralism had plunged US prestige around the world to new and discouraging lows.