STRATEGIC PANORAMA 2014
Analysing the international changes of the past year and noting the immediate trends – the main purpose of the
Strategic Panorama since its first edition in 1996 – might seem an easy task compared to studying the major upheavals of the past century, such as the First World War, whose first centenary is coming up in 2014. The 75 years since the start of the Second World War and 25 since the fall of the Berlin wall make 2014 a historic opportunity to recall the best and the worst of Europe, especially the miraculous process of building a supranational community over the past halfcentury and the deep divides that still exist and prevent us from culminating the process and permanently banishing the spectres of the past.