Of Paradise and Power

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order

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Author	Robert Kagan
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Euro-American relations, Foreign policy of the United States
Genre	Nonfiction
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Publication date	2003
Media type	Hardcover
Pages	112
ISBN	978-1-4000-4093-3
OCLC	51274548

Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order is an essay by Robert Kagan which attempts to explicate the differing approaches that the United States and the nations of Europe take towards the conduct of foreign policy. Kagan argues that the two have different philosophical outlooks on the use of power, which are the natural consequence of the United States' possession of power and the Europeans' lack of it.

Initially published in Policy Review magazine, the essay was widely read and the subject of extensive debate and commentary in both America and Europe. In terms of its impact, it was compared by reviewers to Francis Fukuyama's The End of History, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations, and even the X Article.

Of Paradise and Power was a bestseller in multiple countries. It was a New York Times bestseller for ten weeks. It was also a bestseller in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada. It has been translated into more than 25 languages.

Further reading

• G. John Ikenberry, Reviewed work(s): Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order by Robert Kagan, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 2003), pp. 145–146, Published by: Council on Foreign Relations, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20033516

External links

• Publisher's site for the book
• Booknotes interview with Kagan on Of Paradise and Power, February 16, 2003.