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Paradise, No.("Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order")(Book Review)

National Review

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Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, by Robert Kagan (Knopf, 103 pp., $18)

'It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world," writes Robert Kagan in the first sentence of this new book. "Americans," he tells us, "are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus": While Americans (by necessity) are mired in "history" -- that is, in an "anarchic Hobbesian world" of power politics -- Europeans are entering the "post-historical paradise" of Immanuel Kant's "perpetual peace." The book is an expansion of Kagan's seminal 2002 Policy Review article, which caused a ...

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