Architects of Delusion Europe, America, and the Iraq War Simon
Serfaty "A masterful analysis of America and Europe: insightful,
trenchant, brilliantly conceived, and elegantly written. Drawing
his lessons from America's post-World War II engagement with allies
in Europe, Simon Serfaty has captured with chilling precision the
dilemmas and symmetries that will dominate America's and Europe's
security concerns in this generation."--General Wesley K. Clark
"Simon Serfaty shows why America has more to fear from a weak
Europe than a strong Europe. This powerful account of leadership
failure in four countries explains not only how Iraq split the West
but what a new set of leaders must do to repair the
damage."--Joseph S. Nye, Jr., author of "Soft Power: The Means to
Success in World Politics" "This is an impressive work of policy
analysis and scholarship. Serfaty's knowledge of politics and
personalities in the four capitals he considers is extensive. The
interpretations of interactions among them are subtle. And there is
a fine sense of historical background as well as today's global
context."--Michael Brenner, University of Pittsburgh The
commencement of war in Iraq in 2003 was met with a variety of
reactions around the globe. In "Architects of Delusion," Simon
Serfaty presents a historical analysis of how and why the decision
to wage war was endorsed by some of America's main European allies,
especially Britain, and opposed by others, especially France and
Germany. Tony Blair, George W. Bush, Jacques Chirac, and Gerhard
Schroeder were, Serfaty argues, the architects of one of the most
serious crises in postwar transatlantic relations. These four heads
of state were the victims not only of their personal delusions but
also of those of the nations they led. They all played the hand
that their countries had dealt them--the forceful hand of a
righteous America, the principled acquiescence of a faithful
Britain, the determined intransigence of a quarrelsome France, and
the ambiguous "new way" of a recast Germany. Serfaty's deft
interweaving of the political histories and cultures of the four
countries and the personalities of their leaders transcends the
Europe-bashing debate sparked by the Iraq invasion. He contends
that not one of these four leaders was entirely right or entirely
wrong in his approach to the others or to the issues, before and
during the war. For the resulting wounds to heal, though, and for
the continuity of transatlantic relations, he reminds us that the
United States and France must end their estrangement, France and
Britain must resolve their differences, Germany must carry its
weight relative to both France and Britain, and the United States
must exert the same visionary leadership for the twenty-first
century that it showed during its rise to preeminence in the
twentieth century. Simon Serfaty is Senior Professor of U.S.
Foreign Policy in the Graduate Program in International Studies at
Old Dominion University as well as Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in
Global Security and Geostrategy and Senior Adviser to the Europe
Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in
Washington, D.C. 2007 184 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-4060-3 Cloth
$49.95s 32.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0342-4 Ebook $49.95s 32.50 World
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