Why Europe Will Run the 21st CenturyThose 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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No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in a retrieval system, in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from Fourth Estate. U'l -§U1l\J._\ O1 CONTENTS Introduction: The Power of Weakness ...
The fact that Europe does not have one leader, but rather a network of centres of power united by common policies and goals, means that it can expand to accommodate ever-greater numbers of countries without collapsing, and continue to ...
This 'regional domino effect' will change our ideas of politics, economics and redefine what power means for the twentyfirst century. The Project for a New European Century Imagine a world of peace, prosperity, and democracy.
The expat's burden of carrying his home in his head means that there is no risk of going native. Few of the Eurocrats who move to Brussels even try to fit in. Many of the British cling to their roots by recreating a little England.
The most obvious reason for Europe's invisibility abroad is the dark episode of European colonial history that means there is a real reluctance in Europe to adopt the trappings of empire. But there is a deeper reason for this respect ...
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Inhalt
| 1 | |
| 13 | |
Divided We Stand United We Fall | 31 |
Europes Weapon is the Law | 51 |
The Revolutionary Power of Passive | 73 |
The European Way of War | 85 |
The Stockholm Consensus | 103 |
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 |
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| Titel | Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century |
| Autor/in | Mark Leonard |
| Verlag | HarperCollins UK, 2011 |
| ISBN | 0007398395, 9780007398393 |
| Länge | 264 Seiten |
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