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In The Future of the Jews, Stuart E.Eizenstat, a senior diplomat of international reputation, surveys the major geopolitical, economic, and security challenges facing the world in general, and the Jewish world and the United States in particular.

In The Future of the Jews, Stuart E. Eizenstat, a senior diplomat of international reputation, surveys the major geopolitical, economic, and security challenges facing the world in general, and the Jewish world and the United States in particular. These forces include the shift of power and influence from the United States and Europe to the emerging powers in Asia and Latin America; globalization and the new information age; the battle for the direction of the Muslim world; nontraditional security threats; changing demographics, which pose a particular challenge for Jews worldwide and the rise of a new anti-Semitism that seeks to delegitimize Israel as a Jewish state. He also discusses the enduring nature of and challenges to the strategic alliance between the United States and Israel. Eizenstat's provocative analysis will be of interest to everyone concerned about the future of Jews worldwide and in Israel and the United States' role in a world that is confronting unprecedented simultaneous, cataclysmic changes.

Europe Day is celebrated to recognize the creation by Robert Schuman, a great French diplomat, of his concept after World War II of a new European construct. It is hard to imagine that the ideas of visionaries like Schuman, Jean Monnet, Paul Henri Spaak and Walter Hallstein of what started as a small European coal and steel community with six countries, initially in the European Economic Community after the Treaty of Rome in 1957, would blossom into a union with 28 member states and 500 million people. What has happened with the European Union is absolutely unique. There is no other institution in world history in which sovereign member states have come together, not in a “UN”-type organization, not in a G-7 or G-20, but in which they have pooled whole areas of their sovereignty and given it to a central institution while still maintaining other areas of sovereignty. And after the EU started, it reformed itself with the 1992 Maastricht Treaty, the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, the 2001 Nice Treaty, and the creation in the Lisbon Treaty of 2009 of the Common Foreign and Security Policy.

The recognition by the United Nations in 1947 that a Jewish state, along with an Arab state, should be created out of the British Mandate, and its formal establishment by David Ben-Gurion in 1948 as a democratic Jewish state on the same land to which the Bible tells us Moses led the Jews from bondage in Egypt, and from which Jews had twice been expelled, is nothing short of a historical miracle. Jews had been scattered to the four corners of the earth for two millennia yet kept the dream of returning to the Jewish homeland through extensive periods of

While I served in the White House, [as Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs and Policy and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff from 1977–81], Ph.D. economists occupied the positions of Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Treasury, Director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability, the President's anti-inflation adviser, Chairman and Council Members of the Council of Economic Advisers, and many other senior positions throughout the government. Yet we presided over an economy with double-digit inflation and interest rates and a recession. Presidents of the United States and their White House Staff members expect economists to be omniscient prophets of the future course of the economy, unerring economic policy advisers, and teachers of the mysterious science of economics to often distracted pupils. They expect their economists to provide an economic blueprint for high growth, low inflation, and a guaranteed re-election—but without offending any important constituencies. What is the appropriate role for economists in the White House? What can they realistically be expected to do?

American banks. Besides imports, there are other structural causes for the industry's crisis, among them outdated facilities and excessive production costs. But in an election year it is asking too much for the President to deny any relief with steel workers strategically situated in states with large electoral votes. The Administration may feel a greater political need to fashion a package aimed at limiting steel imports from third-world countries than it did in recently denying relief to the similarly distressed copper industry, which has less clout. Republican and Democratic Presidents have provided trade relief to various industries because of the enormous economic and political implications of watching major industries decline, throwing thousands out of work. Despite their genuine attachment to a free, open and competitive world trading system, [Ronald Reagan] and Jimmy Carter have provided import relief for such industries as motorcycles, textiles, autos, footwear, color television and specialty steel. But none of the aid was ever accompanied by conditions for restructuring the industries that would have strengthened them and avoided the need for further import relief. Only unilateral open-ended Government handouts were involved. Nothing better illustrates the problem of granting trade relief without conditions than the Carter Administration's steel policy.