In the wake of the current confrontation between
Russia and the West, will the nations of Europe
govern their interactions by rules and principles,
as the signatories of the Helsinki Final Act hoped,
or by the conjuncture or clash of national interests,
unmitigated by a code of behavior? If by rules and
principles, will those reflect shared values? Or are
the values once deemed universal shared, in fact,
only by certain elites? If a clash of interests prevails,
can Europe contain the ensuing struggle and make
the competition a non-zero-sum game? Or will
each nation in Europe be faced with a series of stark
choices between conflict and concession, winning
and losing
