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Article: The Politics of Divergence - Robert Kagan explains the breach between the United States and Europe over what each considers the proper balance between the use of force and diplomacy in international affairs.(Book Review)
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- The World and I
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- July 1, 2003
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Alan J. Levine is a historian specializing in twentieth-century international relations and the author of From the Normandy Beaches to the Baltic Sea.
Book Info:OF PARADISE AND POWER
Robert Kagan
Publisher:New York: Alfred Knopf, 2003
103 pp., $18.00
Why have American and European international politics and attitudes diverged so sharply in recent years? This question has become more and more important, especially during the prelude to war with Iraq. Robert Kagan's Of Paradise and Power is a useful but not fully satisfactory stab at answering it.
Kagan argues strongly that the divergence between Europe and the United States is real and ...