http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/02/10/charles-kupchan/reply-to-dalrymple-2/ Big Ideas for a Better World Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/02/10/charles-kupchan/reply-to-dalrymple-2/#comment-213 Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Best of the Blogs: Old Europe Roundup Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:06:08 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/02/10/charles-kupchan/reply-to-dalrymple-2/#comment-213 [...] To my mind, the most alarming [response to Dalyrmple] is the one that tries hardest to put on a happy face. "Dalrymple portrays the EU as an economic basket case, but its aggregate wealth now rivals that of the United States," writes Charles Kupchan. "The EU represents a single market of over 450 million consumers, compared with a U.S. population of roughly 300 million." Doesn't the second sentence rather undercut the first? Later, he explains that the economy isn't really so bad as all that: It's just that the existing population isn't growing and doesn't want to work. [...] […] To my mind, the most alarming [response to Dalyrmple] is the one that tries hardest to put on a happy face. “Dalrymple portrays the EU as an economic basket case, but its aggregate wealth now rivals that of the United States,” writes Charles Kupchan. “The EU represents a single market of over 450 million consumers, compared with a U.S. population of roughly 300 million.” Doesn’t the second sentence rather undercut the first? Later, he explains that the economy isn’t really so bad as all that: It’s just that the existing population isn’t growing and doesn’t want to work. […]

]]> http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/02/10/charles-kupchan/reply-to-dalrymple-2/#comment-195 Die Zeit - Kosmoblog » Lektüren (15-02-06) Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:35:05 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2006/02/10/charles-kupchan/reply-to-dalrymple-2/#comment-195 [...] Europa-Debatte. Fareed Zakaria, Chef von Newsweek International, hat einen kurzen Essay über den “Niedergang und Fall Europas” geschrieben (mittlerweile von der Washington Post als Op-Ed nachgedruckt). Und auf Cato Unbound fragt Theodore Dalrymple: “Ist ,Alteuropa’ verloren?”. Dazu gibt es “Reaction Essays” unter anderem von Charles Kupchan und der Washington Post-Kolumnistin Anne Applebaum. Applebaum schreibt: Yet on reading the “Is Old Europe Doomed” essay, I was reminded of a recent conversation with a friend, another American Europhile, now resident in East Asia. Sadly, we agreed that the Europeans who bash “wild” Anglo-Saxon capitalism, who believe America is an unregulated jungle, and who feel smug and safe within their secure welfare states are deeply, deeply deluded. They haven’t yet realized that the economic and social challenge presented by the successful societies of Asia is hundreds of times more dangerous to their way of life than the caricature they’ve created of the challenge presented by the United States, a country which is nearly as over-regulated as their own. If the rise of China continues apace, I’m afraid Dr. Dalyrymple’s final phrase—that Europe is “sleep-walking to further relative decline—might even be too mild. At some point, it’s also possible that Europe’s decline, for all the reasons he listed, might even cease to be relative. [...] […] Europa-Debatte. Fareed Zakaria, Chef von Newsweek International, hat einen kurzen Essay über den “Niedergang und Fall Europas” geschrieben (mittlerweile von der Washington Post als Op-Ed nachgedruckt). Und auf Cato Unbound fragt Theodore Dalrymple: “Ist ,Alteuropa’ verloren?”. Dazu gibt es “Reaction Essays” unter anderem von Charles Kupchan und der Washington Post-Kolumnistin Anne Applebaum. Applebaum schreibt: Yet on reading the “Is Old Europe Doomed” essay, I was reminded of a recent conversation with a friend, another American Europhile, now resident in East Asia. Sadly, we agreed that the Europeans who bash “wild” Anglo-Saxon capitalism, who believe America is an unregulated jungle, and who feel smug and safe within their secure welfare states are deeply, deeply deluded. They haven’t yet realized that the economic and social challenge presented by the successful societies of Asia is hundreds of times more dangerous to their way of life than the caricature they’ve created of the challenge presented by the United States, a country which is nearly as over-regulated as their own. If the rise of China continues apace, I’m afraid Dr. Dalyrymple’s final phrase—that Europe is “sleep-walking to further relative decline—might even be too mild. At some point, it’s also possible that Europe’s decline, for all the reasons he listed, might even cease to be relative. […]

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