United States of Europe The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy

Name: United States of Europe The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
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ISBN: 9780143036081

ISBN-10: 0143036084

ISBN-13: 9780143036081

Edition: 2005

Authors: T. R. Reid

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To Americans accustomed to unilateralism abroad and social belt-tightening at home, few books could be more revelatoryor controversialthan this timely, lucid, and informative portrait of the new European Union. Now comprising 25 nations and 450 million citizens, the EU has more people, more wealth, and more votes on every international body than the United States. It eschews military force but offers guaranteed health care and free university educations. And the new United States of Europe is determined to be a superpower. Tracing the EUs emergence from the ruins of World War II and its influence everywhere from international courts to supermarket shelves, T. R. Reid explores the challenge…

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List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.36" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

The author of five books in English and two in Japanese. Through his reporting for The Washington Post, his syndicated weekly column, and his lighthearted commentary from around the world for National Public Radio, he has become one of America's best-known foreign correspondents. Reid lives in London.



Prologue: Sleeping Through the Revolution



The Atlantic Widens



The Invention of Peace and the Pursuit of Prosperity



The Almightly Undollar



Welch's Waterloo



L'Europe Qui Gagne: or, I Can't Believe It's Not American Butter



The European Social Model



Showdown at Capability Gap



Generation E and the Ties That Bind the New Europe



Waking Up to the Revolution



The States of Europe



Inside the Belgeway: The Governing Structure of the European Union


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