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AFTER THE MUTUAL RESENTMENT and tension of recent years, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its allies are diverging sharply and that the transatlantic relationship forged during the Cold War has changed, perhaps irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-handed, unilateralist, and recklessly belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension.
In this landmark short book, Robert Kagan analyzes this impasse with brilliant incisiveness, looking at each side through the eyes of the other. Tracing the widely differing histories of America and Europe since the end of the Second World War, Kagan makes clear how Europe's need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of beliefs about conflict, power and threat, while at the same time, the United States has evolved into the guarantor of the European order by dint of its might and global reach. This remarkable analysis is already being discussed by policy makers from Washington to Tokyo. Like Fukuyama's End of History and Samuel Huntingdon's Clash of Civilizations before it, Kagan's book is the essential account of the times in which we live.ISBN:9781843541776
