num_pages: 288
description: Once the worlds bastion of liberal democratic values Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism populist nationalism and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for Brexit; examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers; and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. With President Trump now threatening to abandon America's traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the continent's security Europe may be alone in dealing with these unprecedented challenges. Based on extensive firsthand reporting this book is a provocative disturbing look at a continent in unexpected crisis.
language: English
title: The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
publisher: Yale University Press