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Alexander Herzen wrote that after any revolution, "the departing world leaves behind it not an heir but a pregnant widow." Yet ever since the election of Donald Trump convulsed the world. Western Europe's leaders have been speaking as if a new international order had already been born...

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Published in:National review (New York) 2019-02, Vol.71 (2), p.19
Main Author: Rough, Peter
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Cold War
Democracy
International relations
Political power
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Summary:Alexander Herzen wrote that after any revolution, "the departing world leaves behind it not an heir but a pregnant widow." Yet ever since the election of Donald Trump convulsed the world. Western Europe's leaders have been speaking as if a new international order had already been born. The truth, though, is more complicated than these broad claims suggest. While European integration certainly may have hastened the fall of the Berlin Wall, American power and democracy struck the decisive blow for victory in the Cold War. And while no observer of Brussels could accuse it of an untoward propensity for action, the EU is much more than a mere debating society.
ISSN:0028-0038