From 1980 to 2004 joining the European Union was quite popular among large sections of the populations in concerned countries. Portuguese, Greek and Spanish citizens regarded their countries’ ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The traditional distinction between the core and the periphery is becoming ...

“People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.” — Immanuel Wallerstein IN his world system analysis, Wallerstein speaks of a multiplicity of political ...

Software systems are among the most complex of the artifacts that our species creates. In the design, use, and evolution of such systems, a dynamic tension exists between what I have come to call the ...