JAPAN'S REGIONS

JAPAN'S REGIONS

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Realizing an assertive post-American Europe


Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009

By JEREMY SHAPIRO and NICK WITNEY
 
PARIS — As U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Sweden to collect his Nobel Prize, the celebrations expose an awful truth: Europe's admiration for its ideal of an American president is not reciprocated. Obama seems to bear Europeans no ill will. But he has quickly learned to view them with the attitude that they find hardest to endure — indifference.
We are entering a post-American world — the world beyond America's brief moment of global domination. Obama's administration understands this, and has responded with what it calls a "multipartner strategy." Whether it is the Chinese for the global economy, or Russia for nuclear disarmament, the United States will now work with whomever can help it get the results it wants — thus ensuring that it remains the "indispensable nation." Read more here.....

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