Europe Adrift: Its Cultural, Social, Political and Economic Confusion - Rilegato

Newhouse, John

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ISBN 10: 0679433708 ISBN 13: 9780679433705

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1997

Riassunto

Surveying the relations between European countries in the aftermath of the Cold War, a consultant to the U.S. State Department argues that fragmentation and factional conflict will prevent economic security and political stability in Europe. 40,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull?autore

John Newhouse is the author of six previous books, including War and Peace in the Nuclear Age and The Sporty Game.  Formerly a staff writer for the New Yorker, where he mainly covered foreign policy, he is currently a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a consultant to the State Department.  He lives in Washington, D.C.

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ty and clarity, Europe Adrift gives a keen and astute analysis of the struggle of the European nations to reorder their priorities in the post-Cold War era. John Newhouse--a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a consultant to the State Department--is perfectly placed to examine the deep and continuing divisions in a unified Germany, France's reluctance to accept Germany's ascendancy in European affairs, the self-marginalization of Britain, the lapses of the European Union, and the complex politics of NATO enlargement.

We are able to comprehend as never before Europe's inability to deal with the tragic events in the former Yugoslavia, the likelihood that a single European currency will be politically divisive and even damaging to the economies it is meant to help, and the dangers of a breakdown of Russia's armed forces, including the system that controls the country's nuclear weapons.

Newhouse cogently argues that the weakness of European governments and

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679433708
• ISBN 13: 9780679433705
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 339
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile