The true legacy of the Cold War

This is the second in a series of slightly longer posts drawing on some of my academic work. Following up on my last post, here I examine how post Cold War hubris has laid the groundwork for current Europe nationalism and xenophobia. When the Berlin Wall fell, neoconservative policy makers in the West broke into …

The Cold War wasn’t all that cold

In the next few blogs I am going to shorten up and break into blog sized bits some of the papers I completed this past semester. The blogs will be a little longer than usual, but I think they are well worth reading. Here is a first installment about the Cold War. Let me know …

A message to my fellow Austrians and friends around the world

A few days ago Arnold Schwarzenegger, posted “a message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world” on LinkedIn. I won’t wade into the quagmire of comments (and rants masquerading as comments) that his video has triggered. Suffice it to say, the United States is deeply divided and Joe Biden faces a challenge. I …

The real Lost Generation

We live in an age of journalistic exaggeration. Most of this hyperbole I let slide with a slight eye roll or sigh, but somethings really get my dander up. One recent over amplification that has been causing me to spew my morning coffee over the op-ed page are the spate of columnists referring to current …