Following the Cold War and intensifying in the post 9/11 world, Europe and the United States are headed down different paths. Europe belongs to a softer world of international law, diplomacy, welfare states, and peace. The United States, on the other hand, remains in the land of hegemony, unilateralism, free markets, and war. Few people are likely to doubt that Europe and the U.S. are very different. Many may even concede, as does Robert Kagan, that these differences are "deep, long in development, and likely to endure." However, while the United States and EU are indeed diverging, this di...
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