Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America, and the Future of a Troubled Partnership
Tod Lindberg, the brilliant editor of Policy Review, has assembled a dazzling collection of provocative essays that broaden and deepen our understanding of the division between the United States and Europe.. -- Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author, Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World OrderThis is a superb collection of essays, offering a valuable array of perspectives on the troubled relationship between the United States and Europe. Lindberg and his authors arrive at no consensus on the sources of the transatlantic rift or the prospects for its repair, but they do offer rich and compelling insight into one of the most pressing geopolitical problems of our time.. -- Charles A. Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University; Senior Fellow and Director of European Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; and author, The End of the American EraThere is considerable disagreement among the authors of these excellent essays about whether America and Europe continue to have important common interests. But there is no disagreement that the Bush Administration's foreign policy, especially its war in Iraq, has done great damage to trans-Atlantic relations. Indeed, after reading Beyond Paradise and Power, it is hard to see how Humpty Dumpty can be put back together.. -- John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, University of ChicagoSince the publication of Robert Kagan's seminal essay on the fundamental differences between American and European attitudes towards power, a fascinating debate has ensued on both sides of the Atlantic. Now that debate has been summed up in this excellent volume, which brings together a clear majority of the smartest commentators on the transatlantic relationship. As post-war partnership evolves slowly into post-Cold War rivalry, this multifaceted collection offers both reactions to and refinements of Kagan's explosive thesis.. -- Niall Ferguson, Professor of History, Harvard University, and author, Colossus: The Price of America's EmpireAnchored by two outstanding essays--one by Francis Fukuyama and the other by Walter Russell Mead--Beyond Paradise and Power represents the current state of the art on European-American relations. The book offers an unusual breadth of perspectives, with Europeans and Americans arguing not only against each other, but also among themselves--a fascinating debate that makes for fascinated reading.. -- Josef Joffe, Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit and Research Fellow, Hoover InstitutionThe 12 voices Mr. Lindberg presents give 12 different answers pointing in even more directions. Mr. Lindberg's aim was to provoke, not to draw fast conclusions, and soBeyond Paradise and Powerserves as a sampler of a range of opinion, all of it pro-Atlanticist and pro-cooperation but none of it bland or unimaginative. -- The Washington Times