Four years of Bush, the Iraq war, and a strengthening European
Union have added a few extra oceans' worth of distance between the
US and Europe. Is that to be called drift, or schism? "Americans
are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus," wrote neocon policy
wonk Robert Kagan in last year's influential polemic Of Paradise
and Power, deftly stealing from a pop-psych hit of a few years
earlier. Perhaps so, write some of the contributors to Hoover
Institution research fellow Lindberg's thin but occasionally potent
collection; but then again, perhaps not. New York Times
correspondent Steven Erlanger reminds us, for instance, that Bush
"is not the first right-wing Republican to claim to know the
difference between good and evil: Ronald Reagan was despised and
feared far more in Europe than George Bush is today." Europe
survived Reagan, and it will survive Bush, he suggests. Which
leaves us, other contributors opine, with the job of mending broken
fences, which may not be so badly shattered after all: as Gulag
author Anne Applebaum observes, if perhaps wishfully: "As long as a
handful of countries are willing to ally themselves with the United
States, Europe cannot become a powerful American opponent." Such a
handful is with us, but more and more, Oxford University lecturer
Kalypso Nicolaidis argues, the world inclines toward "European
arguments, particularly about the importance of international
institutions and international law," rather than toward American
bluster. Drift or schism, the gulf widens. And what is to be done?
Well, the US can conquer Europe and declare supremacy, which is
probably not in the offing any time soon. Or, Francis Fukuyama very
sensibly notes, "the problem can be mitigated by a degree of
American moderation, even as it carries on a realist foreign policy
within a system of sovereign nation-states." Solid stuff with few
surprises: a think-tankish collection, important for those thinking
or rethinking US-Europe relations in that context. (Kirkus Reviews)
America's dramatic split with France, Germany, and much of the rest
of Europe over the Iraq war has shaken the world alliances of the
last century. Beyond Paradise and Power brings together leading
foreign policy experts on both sides of the Atlantic to define what
this bitter separation means for America, NATO, Europe, and the
world. Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus, wrote
foreign policy guru Robert Kagan famously in his book Of Paradise
and Power, which became an instant New York Times bestseller last
year. Taking Kagan one step further, prominent foreign policy
specialists - such as Walter Russell Mead, Timothy Garton Ash, and
Francis Fukuyama - here provide multiple perspectives on the state
of the transatlantic relationship after the war. The contributors
ask vital questions: Will the European Union become a more united,
powerful counterforce to American global hegemony in response to
the crisis? What is meant by the clash between the old Europe and
the new Europe? Does the West still exist? How do we together
address the increasing global threat of terror and create a stable
world order? Provocative and intriguing, Beyond Paradise and Power
is esse
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