Western Europe
Marsh's book most readable overview available of European monetary cooperation, from Bretton Woods to today's European Central Bank.
Evans' magisterial trilogy, of which this is the final volume, is the best account of the regime that caused World War II.
This is a sober plea for what Védrine terms "smart realpolitik," on which he thinks the United States and Europe could agree.
Nothing is as seductive as a half-truth. Caldwell's is that immigrants to Europe cause serious problems because Europeans, overcome with leftist good intentions, have coddled them with generous welfare and tolerated their non-Christian values.
This slim volume makes the most persuasive case possible for the collective modernization and reform of European defense.
