Continental Drift

Public Policy and Management Continental Drift: Why are the Ties that Bind Europe to the U.S. Unraveling?

The geopolitical map of the world is changing and, according to Jeremy Rifkin's latest book, The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, the most dramatic developments may well occur in Europe. Like continents driven apart by shifting tectonic plates, the European Union and the United States are drifting away from each other, straining the NATO alliance and a cultural heritage dating back to the Age of Enlightenment. The "American Dream," says Rifkin, "is losing its cachet ... casting the American people adrift."

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