TY - BOOK AU - Kagan,Robert TI - Of paradise and power: America and Europe in the new world order SN - 1400034183 AV - 300 D 1065 K11o 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - PolĂ­tica internacional KW - Imperialismo KW - Estados Unidos KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Europe KW - 20th century KW - 1945- KW - Europa KW - Relaciones exteriores N1 - "National bestseller"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references N2 - After years of mutual resentment and tension, there is a sudden recognition that the real interests of America and its European allies are diverging sharply and that the trans-atlantic relationship itself has changed, possibly irreversibly. Europe sees the United States as high-handed, unilateralist, and unnecessarily belligerent; the United States sees Europe as spent, unserious, and weak. The anger and mistrust on both sides are hardening into incomprehension. Author Robert Kagan reached incisively into this impasse to force both sides to see themselves through the eyes of the other. Tracing the widely differing histories of Europe and America since the end of World War II, he makes clear how for one the need to escape a bloody past has led to a new set of transnational beliefs about power and threat, while the other has evolved into the guarantor of that "postmodern paradise" by dint of its might and global reach UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/2004541024.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004541024.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random052/2004541024.html ER -