Time for a Post-American Europe
We are entering a post-American world – the world beyond America’s brief moment of global domination. But, while the Obama administration understands this, Europeans continue to fetishize the transatlantic relationship.
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PARIS – As Barack Obama arrives in Sweden to collect his Nobel Prize, the celebrations expose an awful truth: Europe’s admiration for its ideal of an American president is not reciprocated. Obama seems to bear Europeans no ill will. But he has quickly learned to view them with the attitude that they find hardest to endure – indifference.