Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century
by Edited by Jeffrey Kopstein , Sven SteinmoEdition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2007-11-19
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Many thought the 21st century would witness political, economic and even ideological convergence amongst the countries of the West. This has not happened. Today we see America 'growing apart' from her democratic allies and neighbors. Growing Apart shows how the social, political, and economic forces shaping advanced democratic states are pushing America in different directions from the rest of the democratic world and argues that these changes are not the product of any particular president or government. This volume brings together a set of leading scholars who each examine the evolution of different social, political, and economic forces shaping Europe and America. It is the first book to unite the international relations scholarship on transatlantic relations with the comparative politics literature on the varieties of capitalism. Taken together, the essays in this volume address whether the 'West' will continue to remain a coherent entity in the 21st century.
Table of Contents
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction: Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century | p. 1 |
| The Religious Divide: Why Religion Seems to Be Thriving in the United States and Waning in Europe | p. 24 |
| Value Change in Europe and North America: Convergence or Something Else? | p. 53 |
| On Different Planets: News Media in the United States and Europe | p. 80 |
| One Ring to Bind Them All: American Power and Neoliberal Capitalism | p. 109 |
| Spreading the Word: The Diffusion of American Conservatism in Europe and Beyond | p. 136 |
| Work, Welfare, and Wanderlust: Immigration and Integration in Europe and North America | p. 170 |
| Lost in Translation: The Transatlantic Divide over Diplomacy | p. 192 |
| The Atlantic Divide in Historical Perspective: A View from Europe | p. 211 |
| Index | p. 225 |
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