Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order-Fast Shipping

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From Robert Kagan, a leading scholar of American foreign policy, comes an insightful analysis of the state of European and American foreign relations. At a time when relations between the United States and Europe are at their lowestebb since World War II, this brief but cogent book is essential reading. Kagan forces both sides to see themselvesthrough the eyes of the , he argues, has moved beyond power into aself-contained world of laws, rules, and negotiation, while America operates in a“Hobbesian” world where rules and laws are unreliable and military force is oftennecessary.

Tracing how this state of affairs came into being over the past fiftyyears and fearlessly exploring its ramifications for the future, Kagan reveals theshape of the new transatlantic result is a book that promisesto be as enduringly influential as Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.