A Grand Illusion?: An Essay on Europe

by Tony Judt

Overview

Tony Judt considers the question: How likely is a united Europe?

“I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist.” —Tony Judt

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814743584
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	05/01/2011
Pages:	149
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tony Judt was a University Professor, the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies, and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU.

Table of Contents

Preface
1 A Grand Illusion
2 Eastern Approaches
3 Goodbye to All That?
Afterword
Index

Editorial Reviews

"One of the most prescient texts on the European Union...[Tony Judt] maps out everything we are witnessing today from the slow erosion of the welfare state to the return of nationalisms…"

The New York Times - Rachel Donadio

"One of the most prescient texts on the European Union...[Tony Judt] maps out everything we are witnessing today from the slow erosion of the welfare state to the return of nationalisms..."-Rachel Donadio, The New York Times

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