Summer Greetings From Strategic Europe
Carnegie Europe’s Strategic Europe blog is taking a three-week break. In the meantime, take a look at our recent summer reading suggestions and a host of other Carnegie content.
by Judy Dempsey
Carnegie Europe’s Strategic Europe blog is taking a three-week break. In the meantime, take a look at our recent summer reading suggestions and a host of other Carnegie content.
Dear readers,
After a very exciting seven months of writing about so many issues affecting Europe, our bloggers will be signing off for a summer break beginning Monday, August 5. We will be back on Monday, August 26.
That doesn’t mean you will have nothing to read for the coming weeks. If you missed it, take a look at the series we published in July in which ministers, diplomats, writers, and journalists told us about their favorite books. There are some real gems in the list.
For film buffs, on August 27 and 29 we will be publishing a miniseries entitled “Carnegie at the Movies,” an eclectic list of “political cinema” chosen by scholars from across the five Carnegie centers.
And don’t forget to dip into the main Carnegie Europe website, as well as the other Carnegie center sites for some fine regional analysis from our colleagues in Beijing, Beirut, Moscow, and Washington.
We wish you a wonderful summer.
Judy Dempsey and Jan Techau
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