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The collapse of the totalitarian system and the disintegration of the Soviet Union took the West by complete surprise. For many years Western cooperation and West European integration proceeded on the assumption that the division of Europe and Germany would be there to stay. As a consequence, the Western states are now having great difficulties in adapting their cooperative arrangements to the challenges of a new European environment, and in coping with the political problems that had been swept under the carpet for the sake of preserving bipolar stability'. In his new book, Alting von Geusau...

This book is a valedictory study. It follows my five books under the joint title "Footprints of the Twentieth Century" and presents the outcome of further research and reflection on the much broader subject of Europe's Christian Heritage. As history over two millennia, it is a much more complex and controversial subject than originally thought. Persecution of the Jews dates from the early second century (AD) and continued in modern Anti-Semitism and the Shoa. When the Church becomes the official church in the fourth century and adopts the Roman structure of a single-headed authority,...

Professor Frans Alting von Geusau held the chair of Professor of International Organizations at Tilburg University. His life-long academic and distinguished career is reflected in this book. He has long inspired others with his insistence that political realism can only be matched with a sense of ethical purpose. This moral dimension of international relations is one of the main themes of the 23 contributions. Academics from the United States, the UK, Israel, The Netherlands and other European countries give their view of a world which faces the challenges of the next millennium. Those who...