Timothy Garton Ash

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Produktbeschreibung

At the start of the 21st century, the world plunged into crisis. What began as an attack on the West by Osama bin Laden soon became a dramatic confrontation between Europe and America. Britain has found itself painfully split, because it stands with one foot across the Atlantic and the other across the Channel. The English, in particular, are hopelessly divided between a Right that argues our place is with America, not Europe, and a Left that claims the opposite. This is today's English civil war. Both sides tell us we must choose. In this powerful new work Timothy Garton Ash, one of our leading political writers, explains why we cannot, need not and must not choose between Europe and America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780141935768
• Artikelnr.: 39188143

Autorenporträt

Timothy Garton Ash is the author of seven previous books of political writing and “history of the present,” which have charted the transformation of Europe over the last quarter century. They include The Polish Revolution , The Uses of Adversity, The Magic Lantern, The File, and History of the Present. He is the Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His essays appear regularly in The New York Review of Books, and he writes a column in the Guardian that is syndicated across Europe and the Americas.

Inhaltsangabe

To the Reader
PART ONE CRISIS
A Crisis of the West
Chapter One • Janus Britain
Putney—Island world, world island — Janus between Europe and America — Four
strategies — Churchill and Churchillisms — The Blair bridge project —S o
now?
Chapter Two • Europe as Not-America
A Nation is proclaimed — Five hundred million characters in search of an
Other — Gaullism versus Churchillism — German emotions — Is Europe better
than America? — Euroatlanticism — A power for what?
Chapter Three • America, the Powerful
Inside the giant — A tale of two new Europes — European Americans at work —
Unilateralism — War — Return to a new starting point — Partner?
Chapter Four • The New Red Armies
Terror against hope — Near East — Far East — Rich North, poor South —
Humans threaten Earth — Together? Crisis as Opportunity
PART TWO OPPORTUNITY
Twenty Years and a Thousand Million Citizens
Chapter Five • Britain Finds Its Role
Chapter Six • What Europe Can Be
Chapter Seven • Uncle Sam
Chapter Eight • Toward a Free World
What Can We Do?
Afterword to the Vintage Edition
Maps
Free World Web.Net
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index