Bryan Appleyard An Ocean Apart Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order By Robert Kagan Atlantic Books 104pp £10 order from our bookshop ‘It is time’, writes Robert Kagan, ‘to stop pretendng that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world.’ Subscribe or Sign In to read the full article
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