The new old world This book offers a magisterial analysis of Europes development since the end of the Cold War. A major work of modern history and political analysis The New Old World punctures both domestic and American myths about continental Europe. Surveying the post Cold War trajectory of European power and the halting progress towards social and economic integration Perry Anderson draws out the connections between the EUs eastward expansion a foreign policy largely subservient to Americas and the popular rejection of the European Constitution. As a neoliberal economic project pushed forward by a succession of centrist governments the European Union cannot afford to allow its peoples a free choice that might dash elite schemes of a post national democracy. Anderson explores Hayeks suggestion that protecting a market economy might require exactly this kind of inter state structure out of reach of popular opposition. With landmark chapters on France Germany Italy and Turkey and a wide ranging survey of current theories of the Union The New Old World offers an iconoclastic portrait of a continent that is now being increasingly hailed as a moral and political exemplar for the world at large