America and Europe after 9/11 and Iraq; the great divide, rev.ed.

9781597972215

America and Europe after 9/11 and Iraq; the great divide, rev.ed.

Kashmeri, Sarwar A.

Potomac Books, Inc.

2008

148 pages

$16.95

Paperback

D2025

Kashmeri (a strategic communications adviser for international companies and a business columnist) conducted interviews with "eminent" individuals with experience of the transatlantic alliance in order to help formulate his own thoughts on the rupture between Europe and the United States and what can be done to repair it. The interlocutors were former President George H. W. Bush, former British Prime Minister John Major, former US Secretary of State James Baker, retired US Army General Wesley Clark, former Ambassador of the European Union to the United States Hugo Paemen, former Foreign Minister of Spain Ana Palacio, former US National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, former Chairman of the US Federal Reserve Paul Volcker, and former US Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. He urges the abandonment of the neoconservative wishes to keep Europe divided, an abandonment he argues is needed in order to allow the US and Europe to take the initiative in developing new rules concerning when the use of force is justified, engaging in projects for attacking poverty and disease, and working to end the inequality between the West and developing countries. Distributed in the US by Books International.

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