Angela Merkel isn't due to meet François Hollande for the first time until next week, but she must think she already knows him fairly well. Otherwise her senior diplomats wouldn't have confidently announced that the German and... more ››
Imperialistic conspiracy theorizing aside, there is a way to explain what is motivating Germany's use of power. German attitudes of today are the product of a peculiar postwar success story. When American soldiers and... more ››