Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book is No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn.
Prominent publications on both sides of the Atlantic are full of anxious ruminations on the future of the West. And for good reason. Europe and the United States are simultaneously passing through a prolonged period of economic and political weakness. Meanwhile, many of the world’s rising powers are enjoying steady economic growth and enlarging their geopolitical sway. T...
La prima crisi dell’euro ha spinto Barack Obama a intervenire direttamente con Angela Merkel: la preoccupazione di Washington era che la lentezza della risposta europea avrebbe messo a rischio i segnali di ripresa anche negli Stati Uniti. Sono circolate, come si sa, tesi del tutto diverse, secondo cui esisterebbe un interesse americano a “liberarsi” dell’euro...
