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Author Kirchick, James, author.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  940.56 KIRCHICK    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.56 KIR    Check Shelf
Description x, 273 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Summary "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 a new American president threatening to abandon his country's traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the continent'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"--Jacket.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-252) and index.
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.
Subject Europe -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Europe -- Civilization -- 21st century.
Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Added Title Dictators, demagogues, and the coming dark age
ISBN 9780300218312 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0300218311 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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