Fractured continent : Europe's crises and the fate of the West / William Drozdiak.
Publication details: New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company , 2017. Edition: 1st edDescription: XXI, 298 p. : fot. ; 24 cmISBN: 978-0-393-60868-7Subject(s): Política y gobierno | Agitación política | Refugiados | Crisis política | Crisis económica | Análisis político | Unión Europea | Europa | Rusia | Estados Unidos | Turquía | Túnez | Gran Bretaña | Europa oriental | España | Política exterior | AlemaniaItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Berlin : the new epicenter of power -- London : the breakaway realm -- Paris : in search of lost glory -- Brussels : capital of Europe, Tower of Babel? -- Madrid : will the center hold? -- Rome : the eternal city, forever in decline? -- Warsaw : between East and West -- Copenhagen : the green welfare state in peril? -- Riga : in the shadow of the bear -- Athens : l ife on the edge -- Moscow, Ankara, Tunis : Europes troubled neighborhood -- Washington, D.C. : the illusion of America first -- Epilogue : a post- American Europe?
The dream of a United States of Europe is unraveling in the wake of several crises now afflicting the continent. The single Euro currency threatens to break apart amid bitter arguments between rich northern creditors and poor southern debtors. Russia is back as an aggressive power, annexing Crimea, supporting rebels in eastern Ukraine, and waging media and cyber warfare against the West. Marine Le Pen’s National Front won a record 34 percent of the French presidential vote despite the election of Emmanuel Macron. Europe struggles to cope with nearly two million refugees who fled conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Britain has voted to leave the European Union after forty-three years, the first time a member state has opted to quit the world’s leading commercial bloc. At the same time, President Trump has vowed to pursue America First policies that may curtail U.S. security guarantees and provoke trade conflicts with its allies abroad.