European Studies

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay” —Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” (1770) Inequality is on the rise in the contemporary global economy, both within prosperous economies and between developed and developing countries. Can democracy sustain itself while acquiescing in a growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots? Does the American dream depend on a foundation of shared prosperity that is increasingly a historical artifact?

Dimiter Kenarov ‘03, is a freelance journalist and poet. He has covered the Balkans and the Black Sea region for a number of print and online publications, including Esquire, Foreign Policy, The International New York Times, The Nation, Outside, The Atlantic, and VQR. He is teaching the Winter Term course “Garden of the Empire”: History and Myth in Crimea.