Europe's confidence in America has eroded dramatically in the last decade. Nixon's monetary policies of the 1970s, the huge American deficit, and the recently imposed protectionist measures which threaten an all-out trade war have had a devastating effect on European attitudes toward America, as have Reagan's Star Wars program and his foreign policy. Indeed, as John Palmer points out, the Atlantic Alliance is facing a major crisis which may force America to withdraw from Europe. Can this crisis be headed off? And if not, what must Europe do to prepare for the future? Europe Without America is the first book to explore this crisis in detail, examining European attitudes toward American superpower politics and outlining the choices facing Europe in a rapidly changing world. Palmer discusses the American economic, political, and security policies that fueled the growing disenchantment in Europe...explores the causes of Britain's decline to one of the weakest economies in western Europe...traces the history of Eastern Europe since World War II, and shows how individual countries in the Communist bloc are now bypassing COMECON to trade directly with the West...and evaluates the failure of the European Community to form a united Europe that could stand on an equal footing with America and the Soviet Union. These developments pose enormous dangers, but also offer exciting new opportunities: will the world split up into increasingly protectionist and antagonistic states, or will a new European unity emerge, embracing not only Western Europe, but also Europe east of the Iron Curtain? As Palmer points out, there has been very little public debate about the kinds of political, economic, and security policies Europe would need in the wake of an American withdrawal. In his trenchant and thought-provoking analysis, he enumerates the options available--and challenges Europeans to begin thinking now about their future without America.

Europe Without America?: The Crisis in Atlantic Relations

PALMER, John

Oxford University Press

This book analyses the historical background to the current relations between the United States and its European allies. The author argues that these relations are approaching crisis point and that the post-war world of the Atlantic Alliance is breaking up. In his opinion this situation is no passing phase but rather a central feature of the crumbling economic and political order of the West. Palmer is concerned that these developments pose great dangers to Europe but he also sees exciting new opportunities. He focuses on the options available and challenges Europe to think again.

Europe without America?: The crisis in Atlantic relations

Parmenides and Presocratic Philosophy

John Palmer develops and defends a modal interpretation of Parmenides, according to which he was the first philosopher to distinguish in a rigorous manner the fundamental modalities of necessary being, necessary non-being or impossibility, and non-necessary or contingent being. This book accordingly reconsiders his place in the historical development of Presocratic philosophy in light of this new interpretation. Careful treatment of Parmenides' specification of the ways of inquiry that define his metaphysical and epistemological outlook paves the way for detailed analyses of his arguments demonstrating the temporal and spatial attributes of what is and cannot not be. Since the existence of this necessary being does not preclude the existence of other entities that are but need not be, Parmenides' cosmology can straightforwardly be taken as his account of the origin and operation of the world's mutable entities. Later chapters reassess the major Presocratics' relation to Parmenides in light of the modal interpretation, focusing particularly on Zeno, Melissus, Anaxagoras, and Empedocles. In the end, Parmenides' distinction among the principal modes of being, and his arguments regarding what what must be must be like, simply in virtue of its mode of being, entitle him to be seen as the founder of metaphysics or ontology as a domain of inquiry distinct from natural philosophy and theology. An appendix presents a Greek text of the fragments of Parmenides' poem with English translation and textual notes.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Raphael's Sanctuary of the Astral Art, or Elysium of Astrology: Being a Book for the Boudoir, Drawing-Room Table, and Evening Parties, Containing a ... of the Twelve Celestial Houses; Also, Sp

Self-Help

Motivational

Forgotten Books

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The Sunday School: Its History and Development

Religion & Spirituality

Franklin Classics

History

BiblioBazaar

This concise yet comprehensive text provides a coherent and practical framework for the study and practice of land restoration and reclamation. It sets out the fundamental workings of the natural environment - terrestrial ecosystems, nutrient cycling and soil structure and gives an account of how these may be assessed, how they become degraded and the variety of processes available for reclamation and restoration; ranging from agro-forestry to the re-establishment of fully self-sustaining ecosystems.

Land Restoration Reclamation: Principles Practice

Business & Money

Harris, James A.

Birch, Paul

Economics

Longman Pub. Group

Drawing and Sketching

Arts & Photography

Drawing

Macmillan,Australia

Steady progress in recent years has been made in understanding the special mathematical features of certain exactly solvable models in statistical mechanics and quantum field theory, including the scaling limits of the 2-D Ising (lattice) model, and more generally, a class of 2-D quantum fields known as holonomic fields. New results have made it possible to obtain a detailed nonperturbative analysis of the multi-spin correlations. In particular, the book focuses on deformation analysis of the scaling functions of the Ising model, and will appeal to graduate students, mathematicians, and physicists interested in the mathematics of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory.

Planar Ising Correlations (Progress in Mathematical Physics, 49)

Reference

Birkhauser

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