“Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus,” wrote Robert Kagan in Of Paradise and Power, published in 2003, just as the United States went into Iraq. Americans, he wrote, see themselves in “an anarchic Hobbesian world” where security and a liberal order depend on military might, while Europe is “moving beyond power into a self-contained world of laws and rules and transnational negotiation and co-operation.”A dozen years later, Europeans and not a few Americans have been asking how well Mars has been working out for America. But Americans and an increasing number of Europeans should also be asking …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research