Of Paradise and Power

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.