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: 9781594200335

ISBN-10: 1594200335

ISBN-13: 9781594200335

Edition: 2004

Authors: T. R. Reid

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In May 2004, the European Union will add ten new member states-including Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, among others-to become a union of twenty-five nations. While this might seem a fairly innocuous and minute shift of political semantics for most Americans, the enlargement will increase the population of the EU to 450 million citizens, making it larger (in population) and richer (in GDP) than the United States-not to mention that the EU has more trade than the United States and more votes on the UN Security Council and all other international organizations. This New Europe is determined to flex its political and economic muscle on the world stage. The Continent has moved much…

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List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 11/4/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
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