By Mark Leonard
Publish 12 months note: First released 2005
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Those who think Europe to be susceptible and ineffectual are flawed. Turning traditional knowledge on its head Why Europe Will Run the twenty first Century units out a imaginative and prescient for a century within which Europe will dominate, no longer the US. this is often the booklet that may make your brain up approximately Europe. those that think Europe is vulnerable and ineffectual are unsuitable. Turning traditional knowledge on its head, Mark Leonard, one of many UK's such a lot visionary thinkers, argues that Europe is remaking the realm in its personal picture. Europe purely appears to be like useless since it is obvious via American eyes. yet America's succeed in is shallow and slim. it will possibly bribe, bully or impose its will wherever on this planet, but if its again is grew to become its efficiency wanes.
Europe's achieve is large and deep, spreading its values from Albania to Zambia. It brings different international locations into its orbit instead of defining itself opposed to them, and as soon as nations come lower than the impression of its legislation and customs they're replaced for ever.
This ebook units up a problem: to treat Europe now not as a tangle of paperwork and rules, yet as a innovative version for the longer term. we won't have the funds for to fail to remember that Europe used to be based to guard us opposed to struggle and that it really is now key to the unfold of democracy? Why Europe Will Run the twenty first Century? addresses Europe's position on this planet, seems to the earlier and the long run and argues, provocatively, that it might and may form a brand new and higher international order.
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Special thanks to Amy Devine and the Citizen's Project in Colorado Springs for all their help, and to Kathryn Stinson for research assistance. Friends and colleagues have read bits and pieces of this book while it was an ongoing project. Thanks for criticisms and encouragements to Jim Beckford, Larry Cata Backer, Joel Bakan, Paisley Currah, Ruthann Robson, and Kenneth Wald. Special appreciation to Carl Stychin, who resolutely read far more of this than was his duty, and helped, more than a little, to keep me sane while I was writing it.
CT thus seemed an appropriate and at the same time difficult place to begin to look for both the emergence of an antigay politics and, just as important, the wider social critique within which the CR antigay agenda is located. Second, through studying a journal such as CT, given its political/religious orientation and longevity, I hope to uncover an early representation of the homosexual subject in conservative Protestant politics. Somewhat to my surprise, I found that writers in CT were discussing homosexuality in some detail as early as the 1950s, and with great vigor in the 1960s.
28 The words ''conservative" and "orthodox" are sufficient, and accurate, for my purposes. I occasionally use "evangelical" when I refer to a broader movement than the CR. " However, the CR is conservative politically, as well as theologically. Aside from its antigay stance, the CR could be said to espouse a procapitalist, promilitary, antifeminist, and broadly anti- Page 14 welfarist politics. With the exception of chapter 7, where I move away from an exclusive focus on antigay politics, these issues or positions are not the concern of this book.