America Or Europe

Author : Federiga Bindi
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815732815

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Europe and America by Federiga Bindi Pdf

“America First” is “America Alone” Foreign policy is like physics: vacuums quickly fill. As the United States retreats from the international order it helped put in place and maintain since the end of World War II, Russia is rapidly filling the vacuum. Federiga Bindi’s new book assesses the consequences of this retreat for transatlantic relations and Europe, showing how the current path of US foreign policy is leading to isolation and a sharp decrease of US influence in international relations. Transatlantic relations reached a peak under President Barack Obama. But under the Trump administration, withdrawal from the global stage has caused irreparable damage to the transatlantic partnership and has propelled Europeans to act more independently. Europe and America explores this tumultuous path by examining the foreign policy of the United States, Russia, and the major European Union member states. The book highlights the consequences of US retreat for transatlantic relations and Europe, demonstrating that “America first” is becoming “America alone,” perhaps marking the end of transatlantic relations as we know it, with Europe no longer beholden to the US national interest.

Author : Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520949676

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Across Atlantic Ice by Dennis J. Stanford,Bruce A. Bradley Pdf

Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.

Author : Andrei S. Markovits
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400827299

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Uncouth Nation by Andrei S. Markovits Pdf

No survey can capture the breadth and depth of the anti-Americanism that has swept Europe in recent years. From ultraconservative Bavarian grandmothers to thirty-year-old socialist activists in Greece, from globalization opponents to corporate executives--Europeans are joining in an ever louder chorus of disdain for America. For the first time, anti-Americanism has become a European lingua franca. In this sweeping and provocative look at the history of European aversion to America, Andrei Markovits argues that understanding the ubiquity of anti-Americanism since September 11, 2001, requires an appreciation of such sentiments among European elites going back at least to July 4, 1776. While George W. Bush's policies have catapulted anti-Americanism into overdrive, particularly in Western Europe, Markovits argues that this loathing has long been driven not by what America does, but by what it is. Focusing on seven Western European countries big and small, he shows how antipathies toward things American embrace aspects of everyday life--such as sports, language, work, education, media, health, and law--that remain far from the purview of the Bush administration's policies. Aggravating Europeans' antipathies toward America is their alleged helplessness in the face of an Americanization that they view as inexorably befalling them. More troubling, Markovits argues, is that this anti-Americanism has cultivated a new strain of anti-Semitism. Above all, he shows that while Europeans are far apart in terms of their everyday lives and shared experiences, their not being American provides them with a powerful common identity--one that elites have already begun to harness in their quest to construct a unified Europe to rival America.

Author : Sven Steinmo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139468619

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Growing Apart? by Sven Steinmo Pdf

Many thought the 21st century would witness political, economic and even ideological convergence amongst the countries of the West. This has not happened. Today we see America 'growing apart' from her democratic allies and neighbors. Growing Apart shows how the social, political, and economic forces shaping advanced democratic states are pushing America in different directions from the rest of the democratic world and argues that these changes are not the product of any particular president or government. This volume brings together a set of leading scholars who each examine the evolution of different social, political, and economic forces shaping Europe and America. It is the first book to unite the international relations scholarship on transatlantic relations with the comparative politics literature on the varieties of capitalism. Taken together, the essays in this volume address whether the 'West' will continue to remain a coherent entity in the 21st century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807834848

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Nationalism in Europe and America by Anonim Pdf

Nationalism in Europe and America

Author : Sarwar A. Kashmeri
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313087165

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America and Europe after 9/11 and Iraq by Sarwar A. Kashmeri Pdf

American foreign policy toward Europe is merrily rolling along the path of least resistance, in the belief that there is nothing really amiss with the European-American relationship that multilateralism will not fix. Not true, argues Kashmeri. The alliance is dead, cannot be fixed, and must be renegotiated. It has not grown to accommodate Europe's emergence as a major power. A kind of United States of Europe, with foreign priorities different from those of the United States, has arrived at America's doorstep. But America is still forging foreign policy for Europe using Cold War realities; both Democrats and Republicans expect the European Union to fall into step, and report for service as needed—under American leadership. Europe, however, has other plans, and as it becomes more powerful on the world stage, competing visions of European leadership have emerged. The Iraq War has brought them into stark relief. For example, as Kashmeri points out, the Atlantic divide over Iraq was more about French-British competition for leadership of Europe than it was about a division between American goals and European goals. He portrays British foreign policy as out of touch with reality, as a policy that has done a disservice to the United States as a result of the Blair government's exaggerated and self-serving view of the British-American special relationship. Kashmeri concludes with prescriptions for forging a new alliance based on a special relationship with the European Union. This agenda is inspired by the thoughts of the leaders who spoke to the author specifically for this book, among them former president George H. W. Bush, former British prime minister John Major, James A. Baker III, Wesley K. Clark, Brent Scowcroft, Paul Volcker, U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel, and Caspar W. Weinberger.

Author : David C. Gompert,F. Stephen Larrabee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521633672

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America and Europe by David C. Gompert,F. Stephen Larrabee Pdf

This volume offers the first detailed statement by a contingent of RAND thinkers on the contours of a redefined Atlantic partnership.

Author : Peter Baldwin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0199745781

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The Narcissism of Minor Differences by Peter Baldwin Pdf

There is much heated rhetoric about the widening gulf between Europe and America. But are the US and Europe so different? Peter Baldwin, one of the world's leading historians of comparative social policy, thinks not, and in this bracingly argued but remarkably informed polemic, he lays out how similar the two continents really are. Drawing on the latest evidence from sources such as the United Nations, the World Bank, IMF, and other international organizations, Baldwin offers a fascinating comparison of the United States and Europe, looking at the latest statistics on the economy, crime, health care, education and culture, religion, the environment, and much more. It is a book filled with surprising revelations. For most categories of crime, for instance, America is safe and peaceful by European standards. But the biggest surprise is that, though there are many differences between America and Europe, in almost all cases, these differences are no greater than the differences among European nations. Europe and the US are, in fact, part of a common, big-tent grouping. America is not Sweden, for sure. But nor is Italy Sweden, nor France, nor even Germany. And who says that Sweden is Europe? Anymore than Vermont is America? "Meticulous, insistent, and elegant." --John Lloyd, Financial Times "A must-read...filled with intriguing facts that add nuance to what can often be a black-and-white debate." --Foreign Affairs "An exhaustive and enthralling catalogue of our commonalities that begs a reconsideration of just what it means to be European or American." --Publishers Weekly

Author : David Ellwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198228790

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The Shock of America by David Ellwood Pdf

An ambitious, original book describing a century of Europe coping with America: its inventions, personalities, films, armies, business, and politics. These decades reveal how much emotional energy Europeans invested in finding their own ways to reconcile tradition and modernity under the pressure of the ever-evolving American challenge.

Author : Roger Phillips,Sheila Grant
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780394735412

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Trees of North America and Europe by Roger Phillips,Sheila Grant Pdf

This splendid guide to tree identification contains more than 1,000 full-color photographs. Each tree is illustrated in full detail -- by leaf, flower, fruit, bark, and mature tree shape -- and is fully described in the text. A unique leaf index makes the identification of trees simple and accurate. The trees are arranged alphabetically by Latin name and an index of common names concludes the book. An indispensable companion for both the enthusiast and the botanist.

Author : Ernest Mandel
Publisher : New York : M[onthly] R[eview Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSC:32106000961497

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Europe Vs. America: Contradictions of Imperialism by Ernest Mandel Pdf

"The focus of this book is the emerging economic confrontation between European and U.S. capitalism at the end of the 'golden age' of capitalism in the late 1960s. Ernest Mandel here paints a remarkably clear, comprehensive, and detailed portrait of trends at that critical period. Mandel moves with ease from the most general international problems to the specifics of corporate activity, and few developments in the business and economic worlds seem to have escaped his attention. His story starts with the erosion of the enormous power possessed by American capitalism at the close of World War II. Compelled by the exigencies of its counter-revolutionary role to revive the European and Japanese economies, the U.S. then found itself confronted by formidable competitors in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres. But this competition was constrained by the process of international concentration of capital; capital, spilling over outmoded national boundaries, interpenetrated to modify the competition both between Europe and America and among the European states themselves. Despite this, capital proved very far from being able to free itself from national attachments, from the interests of a specific national bourgeoisie" -- Provided by publisher's website.

Author : Jeremy Rifkin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1585423459

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The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin Pdf

Rifkin delves deeply into the history of Europe--and eventually America--to show how Europeans have succeeded in slowly and steadily developing a more adaptive, sensible way of working and living.

Author : Claire Berlinski
Publisher : Crown Forum
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400097708

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Menace in Europe by Claire Berlinski Pdf

A provocative study of the critical problems that are crippling Europe and causing an increasing anti-Americanism looks at the return of the ethnic hatred, class divisions, and war that previously wreaked havoc on Europe, as well as the rise of such new issues as declining birthrates, growing Islamic fundamentalism, and an unsustainable economic model. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Author : Conrad Georg Friedrich Elias von Schmidt-Phiseldek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : America
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJ94D

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Europe and America by Conrad Georg Friedrich Elias von Schmidt-Phiseldek Pdf

Author : R. Dominguez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137321282

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EU Foreign Policy Towards Latin America by R. Dominguez Pdf

This book analyzes the relations between two geographical areas with different levels of regional institutionalization: the European Union and Latin America. Characterized by low interdependence and asymmetry, this relationship operates in different levels ranging from EU-individual countries to EU-Latin American summits.