The power of the superpowerless

Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America and the Future of a Troubled Partnership

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 93-120

  Nicolaidis, Kalypso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203997697     Document Type: Chapter

References (24)

1. This article is based on several recent publications on related topics, including, Kalypso Nicolaidis and Robert Howse, "This Is My EU-topia: Narrative as Power," Journal of Common Market Studies (October 2002).
2. Kalypso Nicolaidis and Justine Lacroix, "Order and Beyond the Nation-States: Europe's Competing Paradigms," in Order and Justice in International Relations, ed. Rosemary Foot (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2003).
3. Anand Menon, Kalypso Nicolaïdis, and Jennifer Welsh, "In Defense of Europe," Working paper, 2003, ESC, Oxford University;
4. Kalypso Nicolaidis, "Living with Our Differences," in Nikos Kotzias and Petros Liacouras, eds., EU-ES Relations: Repariing the Transatlantic Riff (London: Palagrave, 2004). I would like to thank Thierry Fabre, Robert Howse, Andrew Hurrell, Dimitri Nicolaidis Michael Petrou, Simon Saunders, and Keith Thompson for their comments.
5. Robert Kagan, "Power and Weakness," Policy Review 113 (June-July 2002).
6. For a discussion see Etienne Balibar, L'Europe, l'Amerique, la Guerre: Reflexions sur la mediation europeénne (Paris: Editions La decouverte, 2003).
7. This ultimate twist is more prevalent in the publication expanding on the essay, Robert Kagan, Of Paradise and Power (New York: Knopf, 2003).
8. The Pew Research Center, The Pew Global Attitudes Project, (Washington, D.C.: March, 2003).
9. Emanuel Adler and Michael Barnett, eds., Security Communities (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (1998).
10. Francois Duchêne, "The European Community and the Uncertainties of Interdependence," in A Nation Writ Large? Foreign Policy Problems before the European Communities, ed. Max Kohnstamm and Wolfgang Hager (London: Macmillan, 1973).
11. Clyde Prestowitz, Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions (New York: Basic Books, (2003).
12. Ian Manners, "Normative Power Europe: A Contradiction in Terms?" Journal of Common Market Studies 40, no. 2 (2002): 235-58.
13. For a forceful argument on this point, see Tod Lindberg, "The Atlanticist Community," in Beyond Paradise and Power: Europe, America, and the Future of a Troubled Partnership, ed. Tod Lindberg (New York: Routledge, 2004 [this volume]).
14. See Kalypso Nicolaïdis and Robert Howse, eds., The Federal Vision: Legitimacy and Levels of Governance in the US and the EU (Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2001).
15. For a discussion in the context of constitutional debates see J. H. H. Weiler, "Federalism without Constitutionalism: Europe's Sonderweg," in The Federal Vision, Nicolaidis and Howse, eds.
16. Tod Lindberg, "September 11 & September 10," Policy Review 109 (October-November 2001).
17. Chris Patten, Cyril Foster Lecture, Oxford University, January 30, 2003.
18. Robert Keohane, "Ironies of Sovereignty: The European Union and the United States," Journal of Common Market Studies 40, no. 4 (2002): 743-65.
19. Josef Joffe, "Europe's American Pacifier," Foreign Policy 54 (Spring 1984).
20. Stelios Stavridis, "Why the 'Militarizing' of the EU is Strengthening the Concept of a Civilian Power Europe " (working paper) (Florence: European University Institute, 2001);
21. Karen E. Smith, "The End of Civilian Power Europe: A Welcome Demise or a Cause for Concern?" International Spectator 35, no. 2 (April-June 2000).
22. For a cogent defense, see International Development Research Council, The Responsibility to Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (Ottawa: Author, 2001).
23. Anne Marie Slaughter, "A Chance to Reshape the U.N.," Washington Post, April 13, 2003. A. U.N. commission has now been set up to investigate this agenda.
24. See, for instance, Andrew Moravcsik, "Striking a New Transatlantic Bargain," Foreign Affairs 82, no. 4 (July-August 2003).