Western Europe
Why NATO Endures provides a useful reminder of NATO's essential stability in the face of deep fissures over many small issues.
Lurid jeremiads regularly ask, "Will France become Islamic?" Bowen, an anthropologist, demonstrates that this view is nonsense -- not just because Muslims constitute a tiny minority of the French population but also, and more important, because most Muslims in France seek to assimilate in ways that are secular, moderate, and peaceful.
Many books have been written about the presidents, secretaries of state, ambassadors, and "wise men" who fostered the transatlantic partnership over the past half century. Weisbrode retells the story from the bottom up, focusing on the diplomats in the State Department's European Bureau.
Howard sets out to explain the striking differences between citizenship policies in European countries, finding that colonialism, despite its manifest cruelty and inequality, had the ironic consequence of spreading egalitarian sentiments in colonial powers.
Accusing Europeans of "infantile" behavior and "fetishizing" the transatlantic relationship, this provocative report calls on Europe to pursue a more unified and assertive foreign policy toward the United States.
