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 hour has come and gone . Its lack of vision , divisions , obsession with legal frameworks , unwillingness to project mili- tary power , and sclerotic economy are con- trasted with a United States more dominant even than Rome 2 ...
... European Union ( covering over 450 million citizens ) they will describe another zone of 385 million people who share land and sea borders with the EU . Surrounding them another 900 mil- lion people are umbilically linked to a European ...
... European model and nurturing their own neighbour- hood clubs . This ' regional domino effect ' will change our ideas of politics , economics and redefine what power means for the twenty- first century . The Project for a New European ...
... key to its strength . Monnet's first principle was to avoid blueprints . The ' Schuman Declaration ' , which the French and the Germans signed to launch the European project in 1950 , makes the lack 14 Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century.
Mark Leonard. launch the European project in 1950 , makes the lack of plans a cardinal principle : ' Europe will not be made all at once , or according to a single general plan . It will be built through concrete achievements , which ...
Inhalt
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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 |