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European leaders, increasingly disturbed by U.S. policy and actions abroad, feel they are headed for what The New York Times (July 21, 2002) describes as a "moment of truth." After years of mutual respect and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the transatlantic relationship itself has changed, possibly irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high handed, unilateralist, and belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious, and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension.
Tracing the widely differing histories of Europe and America since the end of World War II, Of Paradise and Power makes clear how for Europe the need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of transnational beliefs about power and threat, while the United States has perforce evolved into the guarantor of that "postmodern paradise" by dint of its might and global
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To date, Kagan’s article has been discussed in USA Today, The Washington Post, National Journal, Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, The New York Post, The Weekly Standard, and The Wall Street Journal.
Robert Kagan is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he is director of the U.S. Leadership Project. He contributes a monthly column to The Washington Post and is the author of A Twilight Struggle: American Power and Nicaragua, 1977-1990.
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