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Really, I don’t know much about politics, and I’m not usually as interested as I should be, but I found Robert Kagan’s Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order hard to put down. It is a monograph on the increasingly diverging foreign policies of the US and Europe. It’s intriguing (and sometimes awkward) to live in Europe and listen to people talk about the US and give their opinions of her foreign policy; Kagan’s treatise puts not only those opinions and the foreign policies of both the US and Europe into a context that makes sense. It doesn’t resolve anything, of course, but it should make us think about our differences from a more reasonable perspective.