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The end of Europe : dictators, demagogues, and the coming dark age / James Kirchick.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: x, 273 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300218312
  • 0300218311
Other title:
  • Dictators, demagogues, and the coming dark age
  • Dictators, demagogues, and the coming dark age
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.56 23/swe
Contents:
Introduction : the European nightmare -- Russia : on Europe's edge -- Hungary : democracy without democrats -- Germany : the return of Rapallo? -- The European Union : trouble in paradise -- France without Jews -- Brexit : from Great Britain to little England -- Greece : from polis to populists -- Ukraine : the new West Berlin -- Conclusion : the European dream.
Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for "Brexit;" examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers; and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. With President Trump now threatening to abandon America's traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the contient's security, Europe may be alone in dealing with these unprecedented challenges. Based on extensive firsthand reporting, this book is a provocative, disturbing look at a continent in unexpected crisis.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.

Introduction : the European nightmare -- Russia : on Europe's edge -- Hungary : democracy without democrats -- Germany : the return of Rapallo? -- The European Union : trouble in paradise -- France without Jews -- Brexit : from Great Britain to little England -- Greece : from polis to populists -- Ukraine : the new West Berlin -- Conclusion : the European dream.

Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for "Brexit;" examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers; and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. With President Trump now threatening to abandon America's traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the contient's security, Europe may be alone in dealing with these unprecedented challenges. Based on extensive firsthand reporting, this book is a provocative, disturbing look at a continent in unexpected crisis.