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The "Grand Turk" and the Future of Europe.(Book Review)
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February 1, 2005
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Curtis Cate is a freelance writer who lives in Paris.
LE GRAND TURC ET LA REPUBLIQUE DE VENISE
By Sylvie Goulard
Preface by Robert Badinter
Paris, Fayard 2004, 140 pp.,12 euros
There is always something to be gained by reading a book written in good faith by an author who is not afraid to swim against the tide of "conventional wisdom." Such a book is Le Grand Turc et la Republique de Venise (The Grand Turk and the Republic of Venice), which was written by Sylvie Goulard, a professor of political science in Paris and at the College d'Europe in Bruges, in a desperate effort to wake up her French compatriots to what she sees as great dangers in store for ...