Europe in the World at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Five issues:
1. How will the social contract hold up?
2. Toward European Union, but what kind?
3. The challenge of multi-ethnic society
4. Europe East and West
5. Europe, the United States, and the larger world
Margaret Thatcher
Nicolas Sarkozy (newly elected president of France, 2007)
neo-liberalism
welfare state consensus
Paris youth demonstrations against new labor law, spring 2006
European Coal and Steel Community (1953)
Treaty of Rome | "Common Market" (1957)
Robert Schuman | Jean Monnet
five issues for the future of the European Union:
1. the future of the nation state
2. backlash movements against EU (right and left)
3. expansion: is the EU overextended?
4. the democratic deficit
5. the EU’s role in the world (catastrophic failure in Bosnia)
anti-immigrant (and anti-EU) parties:
France: National Front (LePen)
Austria: Austrian Freedom Party (Haider)
Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam
Hanif Kureishi, My Son, The Fanatic (1997)
The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.
How Europeans, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, cope with this is the question
that will determine our future.
--Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam (35)
Cold War | Atlantic alliance (NATO)
end of the transatlantic era?
unilateralism | multilateralism
preemptive warfare | international institutions
“Europeans are from Venus, Americans are from Mars?”