Is There Still a West?: The Future of the Atlantic Alliance

265 Pages·2007·4.58 MB·English

by  William Anthony Hay

Is There
Still a West?
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Is There
Still a West?
T he F ut u r e of
t he At la nt ic
A l l ia nc e
Edited by
William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS | COLUMBIA AND LONDON
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Copyright © 2007 by
The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Is there still a West? : the future of the Atlantic Alliance / edited by William Anthony
Hay and Harvey Sicherman.
p. cm.
Summary: “Scholarly essay collection that considers whether “the West” is still
a major force in international affairs or whether we face a new world of competing
states and shifting alliances. In proposing possible counterterrorism strategies to de-
fine a shared Western security policy, they offer an alternative to neoconservative and
liberal viewpoints”—Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-1692-2 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8262-1692-7 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8262-1698-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8262-1698-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. International relations. 2. Security, International. 3. North Atlantic Treaty Organ-
ization. I. Hay, William Anthony, 1968– II. Sicherman, Harvey.
JZ1242.I87 2007
355′.031091821—dc22
2006032112
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In memory of Robert Strausz-Hupé,
scholar, diplomat, and man of the West
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
William Anthony Hay and Harvey Sicherman
Humanitarian Democracy and the Postpolitical Temptation 14
Daniel J. Mahoney
Europe’s Muslim Dilemma and Muslim Europe’s Choice 34
Zachary Shore
Cultural Changes, Immigration, and Transatlantic Relations 59
Michael Radu
A Sea Change in the Atlantic Economy?
How the West Pulled Ahead of the Rest and Why It May
Cease to Do So 89
Stephen A. Schuker
What Kind of Western Economy? Or, An Expedition to Mars 125
Harold James
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CONTENTS / viii
Conflict within Cooperation: Western Security Relations,
Past and Present 156
Douglas Porch
A Western Way of War? A European Perspective 185
Jeremy Black
Bibliography 207
About the Contributors 227
Index 231
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Acknowledgments
THIS BOOK EMERGED FROM A CONFERENCE Is There Still a West?
hosted by the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia on
February 12–13, 2004. The editors gratefully acknowledge the support
of the Smith-Richardson Foundation and its staff, especially Marin
Strmecki and Nadia Schadlow, for their generous support of our proj-
ect. In addition, both the conference and the book are part of FPRI’s
Center for the Study of America and the West, which has benefited
from the generosity of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and
the John M. Olin Foundation.
Is There Still a West? The Future of the Atlantic Alliance is a natu-
ral subject for the Foreign Policy Research Institute. The Institute was
founded by the late Ambassador Robert Strausz-Hupé, a great cham-
pion of partnership between Europeans and Americans. All of our work
in this area is a tribute to his memory.
Moreover, we have gained immensely from the guidance and par-
ticipation of former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig, Jr. General
Haig, onetime Supreme Commander of NATO and an Institute Trustee,
is one of the greatest living experts on transatlantic relations. He deliv-
ered the keynote speech at the conference which may be read at www.
fpri.org.
Thanks are also due to David Eisenhower, James Hollifield, Barry
Lowenkron, James Kurth, Bernard Munk, and John O’Sullivan who
provided thoughtful commentary at the conference.
We wish to thank our authors who successfully enlarged and up-
dated their articles right into early 2006.
On our own staff, we could not have done the work without the as-
sistance of Jan Luxenberg and Miyano Horiuchi-Oka who coordinated
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