The Armenian massacres in Turkey started in the 19th century and continued well after the Armenian genocide of 1915 in which some 600,000 Armenians perished.

In the Balkans reigns supreme the Law of the MinMaj. It is simple and it was invariably manifested throughout history.

Transition is a messy affair even in the best of times and the last decade of Central and Eastern European (CEE) history has been by far the worst in the last 50 or so years.

According to this U.S.-centric view, Europe missed an opportunity to preserve the West as the organizing principle of post Cold War geopolitics by refusing to decisively side with the United States against the enemies of Western civilization, such as Iraq's Saddam Hussein.

The edifice of the "international community" and the project of constructing a "world order" rely on the unity of liberal ideals at the core of the organizing principle of the transatlantic partnership, Western Civilization.