Of Paradise and Power (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Kagan
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, France or French people, Europe or Europeans, War, Government, Terrorism or terrorists, Germany or German people, Western Europe or western Europeans, Imperialism, Yugoslavia or Yugoslavians, Arms or weapons, Armaments, Afghanistan or Afghani people, Iraq or Iraqi people
In the summer of 2002, a stunning analysis of the growing conflict between Europe and the United States began circulating among a trans-Atlantic audience of government officials, scholars, and other interested parties. Written by Robert Kagan, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the analysis—in the form of an article in Policy Review—posited to readers a compelling answer to a timely question that grew more urgent as summer turned into autumn. Kagan’s piece attracted the attention of Europeans as much as their erstwhile American allies....
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