Review: Europe: Reconcilable Differences
| Date | 01 March 2003 |
| Published date | 01 March 2003 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070200305800122 |
| Author | David G. Haglund |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
Fabius
also
argues
in favour
of
a
multi-speed Europe,
with
groups
of
states
integrating
at
a
faster
pace
than
the entire membership.
Hurd
explicitly
warns
against
such
a
development.
Collectively,
the
contributions
suggest
that
Britain's
involvement
with the
European
Union
will
remain
controversial. A
recurring
theme
is
the
importance
of
political
leadership
in
overcoming
generally
reluc-
tant
popular
and
media
attitudes
towards
the
European
Union.
On
the
whole,
this
is
a
volume
thLt
is
likely
to
be
picked at rather
than
read
as
a
whole.
For
the curious, the
Warburg
Institute
began
as
the private
library
of
Aby
Warburg,
was
moved from
Hamburg
to
London
in
1933,
and
is
now
part
of
the
School
of
Advanced
Study
of
the
University
of
London.
John
Sutcliffe/University
of
Windsor
RECONCILABLE
DIFFERENCES
U.S.-French
relations in
the
new
era.
Michael Brenner
and
Guillaume
Parmentier.
Washington
DC:
Brookings
Institution
Press,
2002,
x,
154
pp,
us$42.95
cloth
(ISBN
0-8157-1254-5), us$17.95
paper
(ISBN
0-8157-
1253-7)
France's
most
recent
rentrie
(that
is,
resumption
of
normal
life
after
the
summer
holiday
season)
saw
the
publication
of
two
books
that
gar-
nered
a
great
deal
of
attention.
One
was
Jean-Franqois
Revel's
L'Obsession
anti-amiricaine,
and
the
other
was
Philippe
Roger's
L'Ennemi
amiricain.
Each
in
its
own
way
served
to
remind
readers
of
the
enduring
claim
America
has
on French
minds,
if
not
exactly
on
French hearts,
and
together
the
books triggered
a
renewed
debate
over
whether
the
country
was
fundamentally
'anti-American,'
and,
if
so,
why?
Reconcilable Differences
takes
another
tack,
and,
while
not
at
all
assuming
a
complete
identity
of
interests
between France
and
America,
Michael
Brenner
and
Guillaume
Parmentier
do
insist
that
too much
can
be
made
of
recent
(and
not
so
recent) spats between
the
United
States
and
its
first
ally,
France.
Indeed,
as
is
indicated
by
the
book's
title,
they
believe
that
many
(maybe
most)
of
the
differences
that
do
exist
can
be
reconciled,
for
it
is
their
thesis
that
the
challenges
of
this
new
centu-
ry
are
such
as
to
facilitate
a
Franco-American
rapprochement.
Such
a
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