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AMERICANS ARE FROM MARS, EUROPEANS ARE FROM VENUS

Using Robert Kagan’s celebrated and timely book, the group will examine the reasons for the growing differences between Europe and the United States. According to Kagan the primary reason for these differences is that while the U. S. has become militarily supreme, as well as economically open and dynamic, European countries, especially such Western powers as Germany and France, have opted for pooling their sovereignty and adopting
multilateral cooperation as the way to secure peace. This is largely because, for several reasons, they have severely truncated their military. This leaves them no choice but to rely on diplomacy and on multilateral expressions of disapproval as substitutes for military action. They have chosen to implement their positions through international institutions like the U.N. and the E.U., organizations that depend on soft rather than hard power.