The Transatlantic Intelligencer is an advocacy

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 website

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 centering on Europe

Europe

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an politics

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 and its American

United States

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 reception. Up until August 2005, it was a blog, but at that point it transitioned into a news magazine website format. It tries to surpass the perceived "language gap

Cultural divide

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" between the continents and in Europe itself, aiming mainly at the American audience. Due to their political weight and influence, it focuses on France

France

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 and Germany

Germany

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.

The site features the Trans-Int Review, providing "major translation

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s and original articles" dealing with key topics of current "European politics and transatlantic relations

Transatlantic relations

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". The Trans-Int News supplies translated extracts from leading European news purveyors and necessary information on backgrounds.

The site's editor is John Rosenthal, whose writings and translations of French- and German- language journalism have appeared in publication

Publication

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s such as Monthly Review

Monthly Review

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, Le Figaro

Le Figaro

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, Newsday

Newsday

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, Policy Review

Policy Review

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, Merkur

Merkur

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, Claremont Review of Books

Claremont Review of Books

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, Tech Central Station, World Politics Review and Les Temps Modernes

Les Temps modernes

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. He taught political philosophy

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 and the history of European philosophy at Rutgers University

Rutgers University

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, New York University

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, and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

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. He is now Contributing Editor Europe for World Politics Review.

Currently, the Transatlantic Intelligencer site has been closed for repairs; the Review magazine feature was temporarily suspended earlier, according to a post by Rosenthal.

External links

• Homepage
• The site's blog - no longer updated since August 2005
• - a cached version of the Transatlantic Intelligencer's About webpage