About this title: In this trenchant analysis of post-Cold war international relations, the historian Timothy Garton Ash examines the deep divide that has developed between Europe and America as the opportunities that were provided by the fall of Russia were squandered in petty bickering and enmity. Though we are different, says Garton Ash, Europe and America have ...
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Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 09/2004
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Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004
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Date Published: 2004
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Date Published: 2004
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Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2-Nov-04
ISBN-13:9781400062195ISBN:1400062195
Description: Very Good. Nice book! Slight shelf wear on dj, name on endpage, no markings in text. Amazon: Colossal events such as the fall of France during World War II or the dismantling of the Berlin Wall create seismic shifts in geopolitics. Alliances are broken or forged. Power and influence are redistributed. According to Timothy Garton Ash, author of Free World: Why a Crisis in the West Reveals the Opportunity of Our Time, the September 11 terrorist attacks and the subsequent war in Iraq have produced ... read more
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Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781400076468ISBN:1400076463
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 2004
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 2004
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"The thing I like best about this book is that it probably takes the right level of abstraction concerning foreign policy ideas from different regions of Europe, the UK, and America."
"strong push for a world of cooperation, respect for human rights, less military and all things good. I particularly liked his bent for increasing development aid but thought his suggestion that everyone donate 1% of income to charities too short. my goal is 20% of my income this year."
"Timothy Garton Ash is a very smart man. But more importantly, Timothy Garton Ash is a very sensible man. The man can organize and express thoughts about extremely complicated situations in a way that not only makes them seem more understandable, but much less hysterical than most commentators in the news media would have us believe.
The discussion in this book centers on the situation of the US, the EU, and Britain and the seperate dilemmas that each of them bring to the 21st century. More specifically it centers on how each area can bring their strengths to bear on the problems of the world, and be the most effective. He questions whether the US and the EU have grown too far apart to work on he same team, as many very very stupid people appear to believe. (Sorry, he doesn't say that. I clearly have my biases). Of course his conclusion is that things are not as black and white as they seem. "The Americans" and "The Europeans" are not one single entity, and nobody can claim to speak for them all. Especially not after the expansions of the EU and the polarization of America. And what, really, are our differences when one gets right down and examines it? Are these differences that are likely to be permanent? Will America and Europe too engage in the "clash of civilizations" of sorts?
Again, no no no no. I think my professor put it best, if perhaps rather colorfully, in what he called the "Ghostbuster Doctrine." If the US cannot do something alone in the world, who are we gonna call? There is nobody else to call. As ineffective as the Europeans can be, as unclear as our family relationship is to them (son, uncle, father, daughter, what?), they are the ones who are going to sit on our side of the table. Certain core values are there. Again, with his sensible outlook: We do not disagree on the ends in large part, we disagree on means. Which can all be explained by history and soothed by a little sensitivity to that.
In any case, anyone who wants to understand US-EU relations should read this book. The only warning I will give is that the last few chapters do switch into a rather preachy, pedantic moral case about the US-EU obligation to fix the world. But it's just the last few chapters. The rest is some of the most sober, intelligent, engaging analysis on the subject that I have read.
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