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...surprise that many people in continental Europe lambast the U.S. as a hopelessly introverted country. Global interdependence is something they take for granted, and they react with understandable disbelief to recent U.S. decisions such as the withdrawal from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the opposition to both the Kyoto agreement on global warming and the International Criminal Court...
...Driving the growth of wind power in Europe is the pollution-control requirements set forth in the Kyoto Protocol, which called for a 5.2% reduction in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide. To meet the demands of Kyoto, the European Union adopted a target of producing 22% of electricity from renewable resources - hydro power and biomass in addition to wind power - by 2010. Merrill Lynch, the investment firm, said in a recent report that it expects wind power to grow 15-fold over the next 20 years, raising its market share to 6% in Europe and 5% in the U.S. Another...
...Bush administration’s policies—against the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol and countless other global accords—have done little to help America’s reputation. Steel tariffs, the death penalty, the reluctance to support the U.N. and to fight AIDS in Africa: these shock most Europeans. When I explain that most liberal Democrats (myself included) support changing these policies and signing these treaties, the Spanish are much more friendly. They are relieved to know that not everyone in America is ignorant, or insane, or selfishly turning their...
Being Irish seems to carry a much more positive stereotype than being American, and indeed Ireland sets a good example on the international stage. In addition to ratifying the International Criminal Court and the Kyoto Protocol, and consistently supporting the U.N., Ireland gives a much higher percentage of its GNP as foreign aid—and recently announced a new initiative to help fight the nutrition crisis in southern Africa. When I was leaving the Bastille in Paris at 2:30 a.m., cabs were very hard to get, and I begged some rather drunk French men who were getting...
...natural resentment. The Bush Administration is not entirely paranoid to imagine that American mistakes - like bombing a Chinese embassy in Belgrade or an Afghan wedding party - are more likely to be the source of international condemnation than those made by other nations. Yet just as it did with the Kyoto accord on global warming, the Administration is making its case with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, giving the impression that it will pick and choose which international obligations it likes. That will merely encourage others to do the same...