The problem with letting high-level principles dictate policy is that the results are often disconnected from economic, technological and social realities.

Dr. Stanley-Becker is a national security reporter at The Washington Post and the author of the forthcoming book “Europe Without Borders: A History.” When I crossed a bridge spanning the Rhine ...

In this light, we can also understand why the young East-European democracies, fresh from a history of forced relocations and ethnic cleansings and the difficult shift to the post-communist era ...

On January 5, temperatures plummeted—not, perhaps, a surprise in European winter ... January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. It has been updated.