It has brought together a divided continent following the second world war and the fall of the Soviet empire.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has preserved Europe from the threat of all-out nuclear war and helped reunite a divided continent.
It was a time when Germany straddled a politically divided continent, with the Soviet Army in East Germany and hundreds of thousands of American troops based in West Germany.
But I chose Kenya because it shares with Europe a past that unites them: Africa is also a divided continent with enormous internal tensions.
Right now, it appears to be the dismal possibility of a permanently divided continent, with, on one side of the military divide, the European Union, sheltering under the NATO umbrella, and on the other a restless, excluded, and nuclear-armed Russia.
Finally, he examines how the Cold War pushed the divided continent to the brink of nuclear annihilation, and how the unforeseen triumph of liberal capitalism came to be threatened by Islamic fundamentalism, global economic crisis, and an uncertain future.
Could it be that our two, mirrored heroines were the product of a divided continent, and that, with the melting of borders, only one of them was now required?
This made Babooshka a helpful soundtrack as the vast political changes began, very soon afterwards, on the eastern side of 1980s Europe – changes that would eventually bring the divided continent back together.
That is the approximate (and probably understated) number of Europeans killed in the thirty years between 1914 and 1945, victims of wars of competing nationalisms on a tragically divided continent.
BERLIN — Otto von Hapsburg, the onetime heir to the imperial throne of Austria-Hungary, who during a long career in European politics was a strong proponent of unifying the divided continent, died Monday at his home in Pöcking, Germany.
