OF PARADISE AND POWER
By Robert Kagan 2003 First Printing 103 pages
The Power Gap page 12
Psychologies of Power and Weakness page 27
Hyperpuissance page 42
The Postmodern Paradise page 53
The World America made page 70
Is It Still "The West?" page 76
Adjusting To Hegemony page 85
Completed reading it today - 6-30-2014.
Robert
Kagan describes Europe currently as being weak in fighting ability and so relies more on cooperation and negotiating with other countries. America he says is very strong with military capability and so is more likely to go to war alone if negotiatiations fail. Book is written soon after September 11 and he concludes with hopes that there would be more common understanding between the United States and Europe. Soon afterwards events in Iraq and Afghanistan do not indicate that has happened.