Memories of Europe's Future : Farewell to Yesteryear

by Simon Serfaty

Overview

In this comprehensive collection of essays, Simon Serfaty addresses the question of Europe's future and the new challenges to overcoming the ghosts of Europe's past. Memories of Europe's Future highlights the axes of discontent at home and arcs of crises abroad that may threaten European integration; examines the policies and institutions that have transformed modern Europe; and makes a powerful argument for the importance of Europe to the United States on the basis of compatible ideas and converging national interests. Now that the post-Cold War years are over, the critical question is whether the future will bring a resurrection of the worst features of a bygone era or a celebration of the best legacies of a more recent past. The future Europe, argues Serfaty, does not require a new vision of transatlantic relations. What will be needed on both sides of the Atlantic is the will to complete the bold policies that were launched during the postwar years half a century ago.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780892063475
Publisher:	Center for Strategic & International Studies
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Series:	Significant Issues Series , #21
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Simon Serfaty is director of the Europe Program at CSIS.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Part I: Half Past NATO
1. Farewell to Yesteryear
2. Years of Europe
3. Steadfast and Changing
4. Part II: Half Past NATO, Half Before Europe
5. The Logic of Dual Enlargement
Part III: Half Before Europe
6. Bridging the Gap in the Mediterranean
7. Bridging the Gulf across the Atlantic
8. Memories of Leadership
Index

What People are Saying About This

Josef Joffe

Simon Serfaty has spent a lifetime watching Europe from the United States. This is the distilled essence of his work -- a breathtaking sweep across ages and continents. Few Americans display so profound a grasp of societies and cultures on either side of the Atlantic. Serfaty's work is an indispensable contribution to understanding a relationship that, even after the Cold War, America and Europe can neglect only at their mutual peril. (Josef Joffe, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, and Olin Center for Strategic Studies, Harvard University)

Robert E. Hunter

For more than a generation, Simon Serfaty has been one of the intellectual giants of the transatlantic world, sharing insight and wisdom to academics, policy practitioners, and publics on both sides of the Atlantic -- speaking truth both to power and to the broader marketplace of ideas. Professor Serfaty's writings are not bound by the confines of single institutions or perspectives, but range across the full compass of politics, security, economics, society, and culture. In this volume, as in the corpus of his work, he integrates and illumines at the same time, providing a sure guide for both Europe and America as they forge new ties for a new century. (Robert E. Hunter, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, 1993-1998)