Heartland Reunion: Geopolitical Chimera or Historical Chance?

... up fundamentally new opportunities for transcontinental cooperation in various fields. It would not be out of place to draw a parallel with post-War Western Europe here, when the reconciliation between France and Germany led to the launch of European integration processes. In turn, it was ultimately France and Germany that benefitted most from this process: the political will and the willingness to compromise demonstrated by the leaders in Paris and Bonn paid off time after time in the following decades....