Europe Becomes Increasingly Secure, and Irrelevant
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times | May 21, 2008
While enjoying a security the post-Cold War period has afforded it, Europeans are becoming rhetorically more critical of their American protectors and militarily less willing to engage security threats around the globe. ++ A conventional response may warn that this attitude is short-sighted and immoral, however, Gideon Rachman says it might just be logical. ++ Albeit a lack of hard-power options tends to make a political entity diplomatically irrelevant, perhaps Europe’s newer threats are better matched with good science and loud voices.
