CEE needs a new wave of Americanisation
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The aim is not to make Central Europeans American. It is to remember what we once found so attractive about America.
Thirty-five years ago, Central and Eastern Europe made one of the great strategic choices of the modern era. It chose the West.
The revolutions of 1989 were revolutions of freedom. What followed went beyond democratisation and the shift from central planning to markets. In a broad cultural and economic sense, it was also an Americanisation. I use the word deliberately, and p
Thirty-five years ago, Central and Eastern Europe made one of the great strategic choices of the modern era. It chose the West.
The revolutions of 1989 were revolutions of freedom. What followed went beyond democratisation and the shift from central planning to markets. In a broad cultural and economic sense, it was also an Americanisation. I use the word deliberately, and p
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