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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... 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 economically dependent on the USA as Mexico and Chile , showed that the price for saying ...
... - tial America lives in a world where every independent power is a potential enemy . " 5 The paradox is that the more this Janus- faced empire flouts its strength , the less it is 4 Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century.
Mark Leonard. faced empire flouts its strength , the less it is able to achieve its goals on the world stage . To understand the shape of the twenty- first century , we need a revolution in the way we think about power . The overblown ...
... less negotiations , they were less likely to go to war . The best way to change the facts on the ground was through gradual change - what Monnet called engrenage . Each agreement to co - operate 15 Mark Leonard.
... less than many large city councils . This gives it barely half a civil servant per 10,000 citizens , as against 300 per 10,000 on average for the national civil services.12 Some Eurosceptics have un- fairly argued that Europe is a ...
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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 |