The Super-State: The New Europe and Its Challenge to America

The Super-State: The New Europe and Its Challenge to America

Stephen Haseler

Language: English

Pages: 224

ISBN: B01K04SSTA

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


Even before Donald Rumsfeld's infamous "Old Europe" gibe, Europe's divergence from America on issues like war with Iraq and trade competition has become increasingly ill-tempered. With the Euro successfully launched and a European army a real prospect, Europe is now a recognizable political entity on the world scene. A population of over 300 million and the world's largest economy have already turned the EU into a super-power, but it is now on the verge of being a super-state.

Haseler examines why the new European super-state has emerged, how it will inevitably rival the United States and how America is reacting to this new world player. Super-State explores what this new EU super-state means for the citizens of Europe and their attitudes to America, looking specifically at how a eurosceptic Britain will fit into this new structure.

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tawdry Monica Lewinsky scandal, followed by an impeachment, and then, in 2000, by the first-ever American president to be put in office by the Supreme Court (and not the people). It was all grist for the mill of a lurking, alternative, view of America – as distorted as was the earlier, rosier, view – of an increasingly uncivil society, a nation ridden with violent crime and racial tension, with cut-throat competition, huge inequalities and without a welfare state. These changes in European a�itudes

training. But even he was hugely excited. Some weeks before, he had been asked by his bosses, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, to secretly prepare the case for an immediate war with Iraq’s western neighbour, Syria. And now it seemed that, buoyed by the victory over Iraq, the 50 Super-State President might actually order an a�ack on a second Arab nation and begin implementing the ‘domino effect’ and the neo-conservative agenda for the restructuring of the

Franco-German unity had been ruptured by depression and the bi�er conflict of war. But, once the war was over, Monnet was determined to reignite the vision. In what was to become virtually an open political conspiracy, Monnet linked up with liberal Catholic Robert Schuman, a resistance fighter from Lorraine and head of the French Foreign Ministry; they also enlisted the support of prominent politicians: Frenchman Rene Pleven; Paul Henri Spaak from Belgium; and Alcide de Gasperi, an Italian from

great gathering was ‘really an assembly of demigods’, though who exactly the contemporary equivalents of Jefferson, Madison, Washington or Pinckney might be, Giscard did not reveal.)2 Many, though, were still not convinced that the EU had become a ‘state’, at least not in the traditional sense. The EU might have the trappings of a state – a flag, an anthem, even an outline wri�en constitution, and it may even at some point secure a single seat alongside those of China, Russia and the USA in the

military spending figures continue to suggest to Washington hawks that Europe greets the new century as a military weakling – as one wag put it, Europe is ‘an economic giant, a political dwarf, and a military worm’. In sum, the new emperor will have no clothes. Europe certainly appears a ‘weakling’ when its military spending is measured against that of the Pentagon. In 2000, even before the American spending boost following September 11th, US defence spending was $294.6 billion, whereas the EU

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