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Next, Europeans need to appreciate that ideals alone don't bring you respect. You have to win others to your side. The reality of that hit home - or should have done - at Copenhagen. Europe had done much of the running on global climate-change policy, setting carbon-reduction targets, introducing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

Others notice the failure of the E.U. to find a single voice. China, for example, has become skilled at playing the E.U.'s individual members off against each other. "There is a complete absence of a strategic debate in Europe about China," says Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

As they contemplate the future, leaders of the E.U. can no longer avoid the hard question: Is a common foreign policy what its member states - and their domestic political constituencies - really want? If it isn't, then the rest of the world can adjust its expectations accordingly. If it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

That, it should be said, would be easier said than done. We should not forget: Europe is rich and democratic; its values are closer to those of the U.S. than those of anywhere else. But Europeans cannot rely on that shared sensibility to secure American favor forever. The world beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Europe | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

While A Life Apart revolves around the past, the past is not the same as nostalgia. There is little romance or Proustian yearning here (although a childhood storybook fills Ritwik with "a strange longing"). But if Mukherjee is scathing about Ritwik's history in a city "that had leaped out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Past Darkly | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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