Why Europe Will Run The 21st Century

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Public Affairs
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 170 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Has American power, like a beloved 56 Chevy, passed its prime What will displace it China India Mark Leonard argues that in fact it is Europe-a Europe that has undergone a revolutionary transformation 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 Europes brightest new policy thinkers, in a book sure to stir and provoke his American contemporaries. Americas centralized, militarized supremacy, he argues, has become so overwhelming that it has defeated everything, including itself. Its capable of imposing itself anywhere-but when its back is turned its potency wanes. Europes 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 businessman or financier, his argument is one you cannot afford to ignore.

ISBN: 9781586483647