Vittorio Emanuele Parsi. L'alleanza inevitabile. Europa e Stati Uniti oltre l'Iraq (The Inevitable Alliance: Europe and the United States Beyond Iraq). Milan: Università Bocconi Editore, 2003. 196 pp. €14.00.
In the often rancorous debate over the future of the transatlantic alliance in the wake of the fissures opened between the United States and some of its European allies by America's global war on terror-especially the conflict in Iraq that many Americans (but not quite so many Europeans) saw as another front in that war-even a learned and balanced work like Robert Kagan's Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order[1] affirmed in its very first sentence that: "It is time to stop pretending that Europeans and Americans share a common view of the world, or even that they occupy the same world." Kagan concluded that "on major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus: They agree on little and understand one another less and less."
