Book Review: Post-1950, Europe, despite challenges, saw a substantial increase in living standards and a drop in political and ethno-nationalist violence
In May 2017, at the conclusion of the G7 summit in Italy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel—perturbed by the behavior of President Trump, from his hostility to the European Union as a trading bloc to his questioning of the value of NATO—proclaimed that “we Europeans must really take our fate into our own hands.
” But a defining feature of postwar European history is that grandiose calls-to-arms are rarely pursued with the same urgency—or the same fatal consequences—as in the first half of the 20th century. The benign sluggishness can be seen in the foot-dragging over defense spending and in European leaders’ endless calibration...
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