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Capitalism vs democracy: Europe’s hard problem
Modern Europe’s political structure is based on the supposition that capitalism and democracy can be compatible – so the most urgent challenge of our times is reconciling the two.

By Mark Mazower
28 August
Culture
No country is an island: the right and wrong ways of thinking with history
The problem is in the kind of history people are thinking with.

By Mark Mazower
15 June
World
From the archive: Greece, Germany and the ghosts of the past
In a curious way, the memory of the war has continued to shape German behaviour through this crisis just as much as it has the Greek.

By Mark Mazower
13 July
World
The Great Reckoning: Why the European ideal is under threat
The certainties that sustained notions of European unity and social solidarity are collapsing. The financial structures that formed the foundations of old Europe have warped and are destroying it. So, where next?
By Mark Mazower
19 May
Culture
Rebirth of a continent. Given Europe's troubled history, its postwar achievements have been remarkable. But it now faces a new set of challenges, and its obsession with the past is not helping. By Mark Mazower
Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945 Tony Judt William Heinemann, 878pp, £25 ISBN 04
By Mark Mazower
21 November
Culture
A green land
I Saw Ramallah Mourid Barghouti, translated by Ahdaf Soueif Bloomsbury, 184pp, £12.99 I
By Mark Mazower
05 April
Culture
The promised land
Israeli town planners hoped to entice people to "instant cities" in the desert hills, but instead cr
By Mark Mazower
08 December
Culture
The New Statesman Essay - The strange triumph of human rights
Mark Mazower finds that the splendid principles enshrined in such documents as the UN Charter are no
By Mark Mazower
04 February
Culture
Arabs: the last Zionists
Sacred Landscape: the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 Meron Benvenisti University o
By Mark Mazower
29 January

Culture
The tyranny of words
The Language of the Third Reich LTI: Lingua Tertii Imperii Victor Klemperer The Athlone Press,
By Mark Mazower
13 November

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