What Europeans think of America

World Policy Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 26-38

  Walker, Martin ^a  

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EID: 0034375656     PISSN: 07402775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/07402775-2000-3010     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. See Jennifer Monti, "Letter from Vienna," Harvard Salient, April 15, 1999.
2. Eleftherotypia (Athens), November 15, 1999. Trans. Nikos Sarantakos, Democritus University, Thrace.
3. For the plots against Prodi, see "Charlemagne," The Economist, April 8, 2000.
4. The author was present at the dinner in Brussels where this bon mot was uttered.
5. Transcript issued by French Foreign Ministry, December 14, 1999.
6. The Times (London), September 28, 1997.
7. As quoted in Frank Viviano, "Bitter Debate in Europe on U.S. Role," San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 1999.
8. As quoted in Suzanne Daley, "More Vehemently than Ever, Europe Is Scorning the U.S.," New York Times, April 9, 2000.
9. Douglas Hurd, "Not a Time to Rest on Defence," Financial Times (London), February 18, 2000.
10. For more on the special relationship between British Aerospace and the Pentagon, see "Defence: Platform Envy," The Economist, December 12, 1998.
11. See "Europe's New Economy," The Economist, March 25, 2000.
12. The figures are from the U.S. Mission to the European Union, Brussels, updated annually.
13. See the interview with the ambassador in the winter 1999/2000 issue of France magazine, which is published by the French embassy in Washington, D.C.
14. Hubert Vedrine makes this point in his December 14, 1999 statement cited above.
15. Quoted in Daley, "More Vehemently."
16. Ibid.
17. See a longer discussion of this issue in Martin Walker, The President We Deserve, (New York: Crown, 1996), chaps. 5-7.
18. See John Bolton, "European Common Foreign, Security and Defense Policies: Implications for the U.S. and the Atlantic Alliance," (Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute, November 1999). See also the statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Frank D. Kramer, assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, March 9, 2000.