Full name: Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

Author: Robert Kagan Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Politics, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781400034185 1400034183

At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowest ebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential reading. Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, forces both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other. Europe, he argues, has moved beyond power into a self-contained world of laws, rules, and negotiation, while America operates in a "Hobbesian" world where rules and laws are unreliable and military force is often necessary. Tracing how this state of affairs came into being over the past fifty years and fearlessly exploring its ramifications for the future, Kagan reveals the shape of the new transatlantic relationship. The result is a book that promises to be as enduringly influential as Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations. Similar books: The Jungle Grows Back by Robert Kagan Dangerous Nation by Robert Kagan The World America Made by Robert Kagan The Breaking of Nations by Robert Cooper The Grand Chessboard by Zbigniew Brzezinski The Party Is Over by Mike Lofgren The Limits of Power by Andrew J. Bacevich America at the Crossroads by Francis Fukuyama The Coming Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan Soft Power by Joseph S. Nye Jr. Rogue State by William Blum America and the World by Zbigniew Brzezinski The Choice by Zbigniew Brzezinski A Nation of Sheep by William J. Lederer Second Chance by Zbigniew Brzezinski Failed States by Noam Chomsky The Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza