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Political Power And Social Change: The United States Faces A United Europe

Edited by Norman J. Ornstein and Mark Perlman
Reviewed by William Diebold, Jr.
Spring 1992
Political Power And Social Change: The United States Faces A United Europe
Edited by Norman J. Ornstein and Mark Perlman
AEI Press
1991
190 pp.
$28.75
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The best of the papers in this loose collection concern demographic changes in Europe, the representation of business interests in Brussels and the national capitals, and some possible implications of American federalism for European integration.

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Language Follows Power: The Linguistic Free Market in the Old Soviet Bloc
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Anti-Americanism has long been a feature of the European news media, but recently the hostility has been matched on the other side of the Atlantic. Skewed media representation has widened the transatlantic rift. It is now up to the Europeans to project a better image of themselves and thereby help to restore the balance.

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