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A penetrating new exam of the triangular political and cultural dating among the USA, Britain, and continental Europe. This dating is either fraught and dynamic. Post-war reconstruction of Europe introduced integration. making a ‘United States of Europe’ was once a aim shared via many americans. but the modern 'War on Terror', has redefined relationships among the United States, Britain, 'old' and 'new' Europe. For Britain, the Channel turns out wider than the Atlantic, even supposing geopolitically it truly is a part of Europe. This ebook brings jointly specialists from Britain, Europe and the United States to discover the complexities of up to date cultural and political relationships, contemplating the demanding situations which were met and those who need to be confronted.

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Norden, eds, Einstein on Peace (New York: Schocken Books, 1960), pp. 186–203. , 1969), p. 65. 22 ‘Bush Unpopular in Europe, Seen as Unilateralist’, Pew Research Center, August 15 2001. Lindsay, America Unbound (Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2003), p. 80. ’, Atlantic Monthly, September 1992, pp. 16–30. 3 THE OLD AND THE NEW Germany, Poland and the recalibration of transatlantic security relations Kerry Longhurst When the war in Iraq brought into focus acutely different perspectives amongst European states on US foreign policy, the intra-European division was manifest in a particularly stark fashion in Poland and Germany.

Within this broader context of transatlantic unity on key European questions in the 1990s, Polish-German rapprochement was decisive. The historical antagonism which had previously characterised relations between German and Polish states since the eighteenth century was largely overcome after the end of the Cold War. German Unification within a European context, Polish-German reconciliation and the onset of the democratisation process in Poland provided a permissive environment within which cooperation could flourish.

What the founding period was about was the translation of these political ideas into a The idea of America and the idea of Europe 17 coherent framework of government: the ultimate achievement of the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. The revolutionary impetus that led to the Constitution and the creation of the United States of America was not as cohesive a force as at first it might appear. Indeed the full import of Benjamin Franklin’s famous remark, that the Convention had achieved ‘a republic if you can keep it’, became apparent soon after the Constitution was ratified.

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