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| | Power and Weakness - Policy Review, No. 113 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | On the all-important question of power the efficacy of power, the morality of power, the desirability of power American and European perspectives are diverging. |
 | | Indeed, it has produced a powerful European interest in inhabiting a world where strength doesnt matter, where international law and international institutions predominate, where unilateral action by powerful nations is forbidden, where all nations regardless of their strength have equal rights and are equally protected by commonly agreed-upon international rules of behavior. |
 | | And now, in the final irony, the fact that United States military power has solved the European problem, especially the German problem, allows Europeans today to believe that American military power, and the strategic culture that has created and sustained it, are outmoded and dangerous. |
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