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Why Can't We All Just Get Along?(Europe and the United States' different views)(Brief Article)
When Robert Kagan first published his essay "Power and Weakness" last year in the small U.S. journal Policy Review, he stunned readers on both sides of the Atlantic with his assertion that America and Europe no longer share a world view. By now, that assessment--given a slightly more upbeat cast in "Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order" (103 pages. Knopf)--seems like common knowledge. But that doesn't make this slim volume any less compelling; in clear, reasoned prose, Kagan outlines what he sees as the cause of that divide--a power imbalance. Americans favor force because they are mighty, while Europeans prefer diplomacy because they aren't.
Both sides are happy with this arrangement on some level. Since its founding, America has believed that force is sometimes necessary in pursuing the "perfectibility" of the world. And Europe owes its current unified "paradise" to U.S. ...
- What is Europe?(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 12, 2000 700+ words
...forget culture. The thing called "Europe" that a dozen or more ex-communist...is about politics and economics. But Europe's political and economic order is by...question how distinctively European this Europe will seem in, say, another five years...
- Europe Talks Back.(Europe's more assertive foreign policy)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Nation July 2, 2001 700+ words
...on the world stage, are worrying about Europe's more assertive foreign policy. More...Washington has found itself upstaged as Europe showed itself willing and able to defy...as serious as that would be, but a Europe that reverts to its old docile self when...
- DOES EUROPE MATTER? Yes & no.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Commonweal PFAFF, WILLIAM January 25, 2002 700+ words
...the overwhelming success of the launch of Europe's new currency, the euro. Its introduction...implies about the future and the nature of Europe's ongoing unification. Once again, "Europe" has demonstrated that it progresses through...
- Europe's Great Non-Debate.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Siedentop, Larry July 10, 2000 700+ words
Europe is sleepwalking into a crisis of democratic...anything like an adequate public debate about Europe's political future. Certainly there has...adoption of the United States Constitution. Europe today lacks its "Federalist Papers...
- Lexus' lost decade in Europe.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Magazine article from: Automotive News Europe Feast, Richard November 19, 2001 700+ words
...misleading. By Toyota's standards, Lexus in Europe looks like a rare failure. It has so far failed...the USA are nearly nine times higher than in Europe, even though Lexus launched in Europe just 18 months after the USA. Toyota's top...
- Place your bets: Europe or Japan.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Investment News Kelly, Bruce November 1, 1999 700+ words
...Institutions looking a broad for big growth Europe's stock markets, some of which warmed...all other international markets, with Europe receiving at least a proportionate share...which includes developed markets in Europe, was up 2.2% in August, while falling...
- Europe limbers up.(improvement in Europe's economies)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 29, 2000 700+ words
...continent's economies ON THE surface, Europe's economies look as flabby and feeble...rewards of its vibrant "new economy", Europe, it seems, is saddled with a tired...incapable of change. Yet look closer, and Europe's economies and companies are both showing...
- Euroshambles.(fuel tax protests in Europe)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) September 16, 2000 700+ words
It is Europe's governments that are mostly to blame...many observers, both within and beyond Europe, it must seem as if the old continent...1973 oil shock. Was all the promise of Europe's single market and its new currency...