Why Europe Will Run the 21st CenturyHarperCollins UK, 25.08.2011 - 264 Seiten Those who believe Europe to be weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century sets out a vision for a century in which Europe will dominate, not America. This is the book that will make your mind up about Europe. Those who believe Europe is weak and ineffectual are wrong. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Mark Leonard, one of the UK's most visionary thinkers, argues that Europe is remaking the world in its own image. Europe only looks dead because it is seen through American eyes. But America's reach is shallow and narrow. It can bribe, bully or impose its will anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned its potency wanes. Europe's reach is broad and deep, spreading its values from Albania to Zambia. It brings other countries into its orbit rather than defining itself against them, and once countries come under the influence of its laws and customs they are changed for ever. This book sets up a challenge: to regard Europe not as a tangle of bureaucracy and regulation, but as a revolutionary model for the future. We cannot afford to forget that Europe was founded to protect us against war and that it is now key to the spread of democracy. ‘Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century’ addresses Europe's place in the world, looks to the past and the future and argues, provocatively, that it can and will shape a new and better world order. |
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... Europe's and five times Japan's ; today its GDP is the same size as the EU's and less than double that of Japan's1 ) ; and its political power is waning ( its failure to secure support from Europeans , and even from countries as ...
... EU , con- versely , is broad and deep : once sucked into its sphere of influence , countries are changed forever . For fifty years , under the cover of an American security blanket , Europe has been creating a ' community of democracy ...
... European powers has become unthinkable ; that European economies have caught up with America ; and that Europe has brought successive waves of countries out of dictatorship and into democracy . When they look at a map of the world ...
... European project and adopt- ing European ways of doing things . " 6 Because news is told by journalists rather than historians , European power is often confused with weakness . But when a country like Russia signs the Kyoto Protocol on ...
... Europe's obsession with legal frameworks means that it can completely transform the countries it comes into con- tact with , instead of just skimming the sur- face . The USA may have changed the regime in Afghanistan , but Europe is ...
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The Revolutionary Power of Passive | 73 |
The European Way of | 99 |
The European Rescue of National | 129 |
Europe at 50 | 149 |
Brussels and the Beijing Consensus | 167 |
The End of the American World | 183 |
The Regional Domino Effect | 203 |