Of paradise and power

After years of mutual resentment and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its European allies are diverging sharply and that the trans-atlantic relationship itself has changed, possibly irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-handed, unilateralist, and unnecessarily belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious, and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension. Author Robert Kagan reached incisively into this impasse to force both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other. Tracing the widely differing histories of Europe and America since the end of World War II, he makes clear how for one the need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of transnational beliefs about power and threat, while the other has evolved into the guarantor of that "postmodern paradise" by dint of its might and global reach.

המשפט הראשון: IT IS TIME to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world.

שנה

2003

שפה

English

הוצאה

Knopf

מהדורות

2

עמודים

112

ISBN

9781400040933

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata