Can Europe Work? A Plan to Rescue the Union

• Foreign Affairs
• September 1, 1996

The future of Europe has become a very complicated and technical subject, although it really ought to be very simple. We need a strong and viable European Union. Without it, the world would be back where it was at the end of the First World War.

Hoodwinked Again in Bosnia

• The Wall Street Journal
• July 9, 1996

I visited Pale, Bosnia, on Saturday, June 29 and saw Radovan Karadzic’s black Mercedes parked in front of his office at the Famos truck and agricultural machinery factory, indicating that the world’s best known fugitive from international justice was present in the building.

Postpone the Bosnian Elections

• The Wall Street Journal
• May 29, 1996

I am deeply committed to making the Dayton peace process work. My foundation, among its many projects, has prepared a $15 million plan for providing pluralistic TV broadcasting to most of Bosnia prior to the elections, and the U.S. and European governments have pledged substantial funds to turn the plan into reality.

This Is the Moment of Truth

• The Washington Post
• July 16, 1995

U.N. intervention in Bosnia has been a dismal failure. It was driven by two contradictory impulses. One was not to be seen doing nothing when the horrors of ethnic cleansing were revealed on television; the other was to avoid military intervention at all costs.

Remarks delivered at the Institute for Human Sciences

• Vienna, Austria
• April 27, 1995

A Failed Philosopher Tries Again (1) My philosophy can be summed up in one phrase: a belief in our own fallibility. This phrase has the same significance for me as the dictum, cogito ergo sum, does for Descartes. Indeed, its significance is even greater: Descartes’ dictum referred only to the person who thinks, whereas mine relates also to the world in which we live.

Toward Open Societies

• Foreign Policy
• March 16, 1995

In the last five years I have devoted much of my time, energy, and money to Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union because I believed that the collapse of the Soviet system was a revolutionary event whose outcome would shape the course of history.

Aid Terms Endanger Ukraine

• Financial Times
• December 2, 1994

Ukraine is poised on the verge of radical economic reform. Until recently it has had no coherent economic policy: the budget deficit ran out of control, reaching 30 percent of the gross domestic product. After a period of hyperinflation of more than 10,000 percent in 1988, the central bank made a valiant attempt to control the money supply, but the effect was merely to leave wages and other obligations unpaid.

Reflections on Death in America

• Open Society Foundations
• September 1, 1994

My father died at home in 1963. He was terminally ill. Although he agreed to an operation, he didn’t particularly want to survive it because he was afraid that the combination of the illness and the operation would invade and destroy his autonomy as a human being.

The Dangers of Post-Communisim

• Open Society Foundations
• August 1, 1994

I welcome this opportunity to testify before your committee on the dangers of the post- communist world. I feel reasonably well qualified to speak on the subject and I have a great deal to say—perhaps too much for this hearing. I have devoted much of my time, energy, and money to Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in the last five years because I believed that the collapse of the Soviet system was an historic, revolutionary event and that the outcome would shape the course of history.

The Other Balkan Mess

• The New York Times
• March 17, 1994

The Western alliance, led by America, needs to help Macedonia at a moment when Greece is needlessly fueling another Balkan crisis. If that regrettably requires diplomatic, political or economic pressure on Athens, so be it. Greece closed its border with the landlocked republic—a remnant of Yugoslavia—on Feb.