March 24, 2006

There'll Always Be an Eastern Europe

By AMANDA RIVKIN

Earlier this year, I was interviewed for a position as delegate to a student conference on international relations. My interviewer asked what languages I spoke. I told him I knew Spanish, Portuguese, and Polish. He commented that if I truly wanted a career in international relations, I would have done better to study Arabic. His response reminded me of similar comments I've heard in academe, where endemic shortsightedness prevails and the swift fall of the Soviet Union has been matched by the

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