| Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century Contributor(s): Leonard, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1586484249 ISBN-13: 9781586484248 Publisher: PublicAffairs OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: In a radical challenge to our understanding of the nature of global influence, Mark Leonard, one of Europe's brightest new policy thinkers, shows us that America is stuck in a mindset that allowed us to dominate the twentieth century but which many not prove effective now. America's centralized, militarized supremacy has become so overwhelming that it has defeated everything, including itself. Europe's reach, by contrast, is broad and deep. It draws other countries into its orbit rather than seeking to define itself against them. A new type of power has emerged, and it is something we cannot afford to ignore. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 327.1 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 4.92" W x 7.54" (0.44 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Those who believe Europe is weak, ineffectual and sclerotic are wrong. Europe might look frail and feeble against American military might, but that expression of power is shallow and narrow. Or so says Mark Leonard, one of Europe's brightest new policy thinkers, in a book sure to stir and provoke his American contemporaries. America's centralized, militarized supremacy, he argues, has become so overwhelming that it has defeated everything, including itself. It's capable of imposing itself anywhere -- but when its back is turned its potency wanes. Europe's reach, by contrast, is broad and deep, spreading a value system from Albania to Zambia. It draws other countries into its orbit rather than seeking to define itself against them, and as they come under the influence of its laws and customs they are changed forever. Europe, quietly, has rediscovered within its foundations a revolutionary model for the future and an alternative to American hard power. With little fanfare, Europe has pooled the resources and the sovereignty of its nations into a radical new interface -- and a power that is discreetly but insistently shaping the path forward. The revolution they have unleashed, Leonard argues, will transform the world. Whether you are a neocon or a transatlantic traditionalist, a businessmen or financier, his argument is one you cannot afford to ignore. |