Otherwise, European history will remain a vicious circle of fragmentation and aborted efforts at integration.

During all of their abortive attempts to destroy Israel, the Arabs had relied on the military backing of the Soviet Union.

Changing the course of European history requires bold action, particularly the adoption of a common language.

A superpower that has earned only frustration in its abortive efforts whether war or regional diplomacy in the dysfunctional Middle East, the US faces the Iran crisis in the midst of its epochal strategic shift to Asia and the Pacific.

He naively ignored the harsh lessons of 20 years of abortive peacemaking, and insisted on sticking to the worn out paradigm of direct negotiations between parties that, when left to their own devices, are bound to come to a deadlock.