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	Jonah Goldberg's Goldberg File on National Review Online
		Americans think the reason Europeans have achieved lasting peace has something to do with the fact that every time these conversations broke out into full-blown brawls, the United States marched into the room and imposed order like a parent getting the kids to stop wrestling over the remote control.
		The Europeans think their "miracle" was achieved through talk.
		The Europeans understand that NATO and America's leadership in WWII and the Cold War were very important to European stability and prosperity.
	www.nationalreview.com /goldberg/goldberg073102.asp (1389 words)

	The European miracle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term European miracle was coined by Eric Jones to describe his position that Europe was more advanced and progressive than all other civilizations prior to the year 1492, allowing it to develop capitalism, reach the New World first, and dominate world trade and politics.
		Urbanization is also of central importance to the European miracle hypothesis, which alleges that Europe formed cities earlier than the rest of the world.
		The European miracle has been contested and referred to as a myth by thinkers such as James Blaut, Andre Gunder Frank, and Kenneth Pomeranz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_European_miracle (638 words)

	Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		European integration has been a theme in European relations since the end of the second World War and has spread to Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War.
		Other important European carnivores are Eurasian lynx, European wild cat, foxes (especially the red fox), jackal and different species of martens, hedgehogs, different species of snakes (vipers, grass snake...), different birds (owls, hawks and other birds of prey).
		Important European herbivores are snails, amphibians, fish, different birds, and mammals, like rodents, deers and roe deers, boars, and living in the mountains, marmots, steinbocks, chamoises among others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Europe (4065 words)

	Belmont Club
		Robert Kagan points out that European integration project, with its vast bureaucracy in Brussels, is not merely an agency for trade protectionism, but an entire portal into the future.
		Europeans today have come to consider the United States itself to be the outlaw, a rogue colossus.
		Europeans have complained about President Bush’s “unilateralism,” but they are coming to the deeper realization that the problem is not Bush or any American president.
	belmontclub.blogspot.com /2004/12/world-standard-part-2-robert-kagan.html (1179 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		European states became more adept at deploying vast armies, but the escalating costs of warfare and the social tensions unleashed by the economic changes induced a political crisis by the end of the eighteenth century.
		Virtually all writers agree that the motor of world history lies within European society, whose historic role (in the words of Marx) was to "export the dialectic" to the rest of the world, thereby breaking the dead hand of tradition, and setting loose the forces of change.
		In the final analysis, of course, the European miracle narrative is an ideological statement which seeks to explain and to justify why it is that Europe enjoyed global hegemony, and why the international division of labor works in one direction and not the other.
	trc.ucdavis.edu /erickson/mru/burkespr.htm (5963 words)

	Untitled Document
		The myth of the European miracle explains that Europe forged ahead of all other civilizations and this internally generated historical superiority and priority explains world history and geography after 1492.
		The Myth of the European Miracle is a myth in the classical sense of the word, Armen explained: it is a story about the rise of a culture that is believed widely by the members of that culture and it implies something not true.
		Miracle theorists believe that Europeans have achieved an "adult mind" and non-Europeans are underdeveloped and childlike and need to be led to adulthood by Europeans.
	www.macalester.edu /~guneratne/Courses/Anth63/reports/Blaut2-2000.html (1153 words)

	European Union Center - EUC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In the study of European integration, the great diversity of political, legal, social, and cultural factors are very much present as well, whether they are taken into account in economic analysis or not.
		In one sense, European history can be regarded as a continuous attempt to re-create the unity of the Roman Empire, and seen in that way the EU is merely the latest effort of re-unification, this time not through military imperialist means but with commercial, economic and democratic/legal methods.
		European countries are some of the most enduring nation-states in history, each with its own diverse and strong traditions and personalities.
	www.ucis.pitt.edu /cwes/EUC/Visitors/noe/History_of_Europe/history_of_europe.html (6981 words)

	Europe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Europeans worked more than Americans in the 1950s and 1960s, when they were lowering their heads in the war reconstruction efforts, first, and then during a period of boom.
		Europeans are working less and less for three reasons: first, increasing marginal tax rates (especially from the 1960s to the 1980s); second, a preference for leisure and, third, labor regulation and union-imposed standards for work time, including retirement regulations.
		Europeans remain enamored of "job security" which often means "security" for those insiders who have a job and no work for those who are not "in".
	www.nber.org /reporter/summer06/alesina.html (1989 words)

	Philosophy, et cetera: European Backwardness c.1500 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		European civilisations were still in their infancy at the end of the fifteenth century.
		European merchants were forced to work through Arab intermediaries, who naturally took their own share of the profits.
		Europeans were particularly adept at manipulating mechanical technology, and tapping non-animal sources of energy – England had 5624 watermills back in 1086 CE.
	pixnaps.blogspot.com /2005/05/european-backwardness-c1500.html (1950 words)

	How contacts with Asia led to the European miracle - Part 2
		One of the main reasons for the relative successes of the European mercantilism in the later decades of the early modern age was their predominance of the oceans as most of the great Asian empires like the Ming, the Mughals and the Ottomans did not maintain strong navies.
		She develops the case further by stating that during ‘the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…import trade in luxury goods from India and China to Europe was to transform the European economies themselves’.
		Apart from this monopolisation of oceanic trade, European colonies in the 18th century were also a haven for ruinously high taxes and forcible plantations of cash crops, both of which resulted in the wrecking of the domestic economy and supply of surplus and raw materials to the metropolis’ economy.
	www.indiacause.com /columns/OL_041225.htm (1665 words)

	Europe
		Europe is the birthplace of the European Union, a union of twenty-seven independent states based on the European Communities and founded to enhance political, economic and social co-operation and integration.
		European membership of NATO has also increased since the end of the Cold War, with the admission of a number of Eastern European countries.
		Other important European carnivores are Eurasian lynx, European wild cat, foxes (especially the red fox), jackal and different species of martens, hedgehogs, different species of reptiles snakes (vipers, grass snake...), different birds (owls, hawks and other birds of prey).
	www.photonicsknowledge.com /search/Europe (3494 words)

	Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography
		Racism is a form of practice which has been tremendously important in European society for several hundred years, important in the sense that it is an essential part of the way the European capitalist system maintains itself.
		The notion of European cultural superiority is not a new one.
		The problem was to show that non-Europeans, though equal to Europeans in innate capacity, cannot develop economically to the European level unless these societies voluntarily accept the continued domination by European countries and corporations, that is, neocolonialism.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/Blaut/racism.htm (3612 words)

	Cultural Readings - Related Essays - Burkhart
		In addition to miracle narratives, texts in Nahuatl that speak of or to the Virgin include sermons, dramas, hymns, hagiographical narratives associated with her different festivals, and prayers; the most common prayers are the Ave Maria and Salve Regina, which Christian Nahuas learned as part of the basic catechism.
		The ten miracle narratives in the John Carter Brown Library manuscript (for present purposes I include the two non-Marian miracles) reveal stylistic regularities indicating that by the time the manuscript was redacted (1572 or later) the tlamahuizolli was a distinctive and recognized genre.
		European miracle narratives feature a high proportion of Christian religious professionals as characters, a reflection of the social context in which they were developed, recorded, and used.
	www.library.upenn.edu /exhibits/rbm/kislak/index/burkhart.html (15391 words)

	Jonah Goldberg
		The Europeans believe the EU is a "miracle" because it has replaced war with negotiations, borders with a common currency.
		The answer is simple: Europeans underperceive the fact that while their bureaucrats haggled in their comfortable hotel conference rooms over wine corks, clever cheeses and other Euro-whatnots, the United States was acting as their bodyguard.
		When he says Europeans are "convinced" that their "model is valid for other parts of the world," he is basically saying that we can drape Europe's legalistic-political system across any hotspot on the globe.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/jonah080202.asp (841 words)

	GREAT EXPECTATIONS: The Future of the European Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		I think that the way in which the European Union has managed to hold out the carrot of membership and use that carrot of membership as a way of goading countries into structural reform, some of which is about introducing democracy or human rights.
		Secondly, the dates are against the elites here because the European Union is established quite plainly after stability has been established in Europe by the United States and it's the continuing presence of the United States which makes it possible for France and Germany or any other European power not to fear their neighbor.
		It is a snare and a delusion that European population is falling, that the Muslim population is large and proving difficult to assimilate.
	www.uncommonknowledge.org /900/918.html (4241 words)

	The European Miracle - Mises Institute
		In this way, European society eluded the "Malthusian trap," enabling new tens of millions to survive and the population as a whole to escape the hopeless misery that had been the lot of the great mass of the human race in earlier times.
		Thus, there is general agreement that crucial to laying the foundations for the European miracle were, in Jones's words, the "curtailment of predatory government tax behavior" and "the limits to arbitrariness set by a competitive political arena" (Jones 1987, xix, xxi).
		In the rise of the "northern Netherlands" (the United Provinces, or "Holland") we have a near-perfect example of the European miracle in operation.
	www.mises.org /story/2404 (6667 words)

	European BIble School
		The proof is in the pudding…see how the alumni from the European Bible School are applying what they've learned to their everyday lives.
		A teacher at the European Bible School and a physical therapist at the Heartgood Foundation, Ziemek is a happy husband and father of two small children: Sebastian and Rebecca.
		He attended the European Bible School's health course in 1992, and stayed on to take the agriculture course and to work at the school's organic farm.
	www.europeanbibleschool.com /en/alumni.htm (1031 words)

	Post-WWII Western European Exceptionalism: The Economic Dimension
		The magnitude of the miracle is clear in the graphs of the broadest of macroeconomic aggregates.
		European labor movements split over the question of whether Marshall aid should be welcomed--which left the Communists on the wrong side, opposed to economic recovery.
		European governments could have attempted to increase the amount of "churning" in the labor market by increasing speed with which those who seek jobs find them: forcing those who have jobs o compete with those who do not.
	econ161.berkeley.edu /Econ_Articles/ucla/ucla_marshall2.html (8707 words)

	Native ingenuity - The Boston Globe
		Although European colonies were feeble at the outset, the teachers explained, they eventually triumphed over the natives because of their better technology.
		Europeans, Lechtman argues in scholarly articles, sought to optimize metals' ''hardness, strength, toughness, and sharpness." The Inca, by contrast, valued ''plasticity, malleability, and toughness." Europeans used metal for tools; Andean societies primarily used it as a token of wealth, power, and community affiliation.
		Europeans and their descendants have long assumed that cultures were behind the intellectual eight ball if they didn't do things Europeans were good at.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/09/04/native_ingenuity?mode=PF (1871 words)

	Asia Times
		European leaders of the 1970s and 1980s were totally disinterested in closing the military gap with America.
		Another practical reason for EU opposition to war is the fact that Europeans do not perceive themselves as primary targets of a country like Iraq, "because they no longer play the imperial role in the Middle East that might have engendered the same antagonism against them as is aimed at the United States" (p 36).
		The "European Miracle", centered on resolution of age-old Franco-German rivalry and warfare, has grown so embedded in European psyche that the EU's new mission is to export the notion of regional integration and peace.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/EC29Ak03.html (1972 words)

	Explaining European Unemployment
		Until the end of the 1960s, unemployment was very low in Europe and the talk then was of the "European unemployment miracle." The miracle came to an end in the 1970s, when unemployment steadily increased.
		In most countries, the main proximate cause of the increase in unemployment in the 1970s and the early 1980s was indeed a series of adverse "labor supply shifts," that is a series of steady increases in wages given unemployment and the level of technology.
		Looking more closely at some of the "unemployment miracles," in particular the dramatic decline in unemployment in the Netherlands, I concluded that the large wage moderation did not come so much from changes in institutions as from the behavior of unions, which had become convinced that wage moderation was key to a decrease in unemployment.
	www.nber.org /reporter/summer04/blanchard.html (2822 words)

	Macleans.ca \| Canada Switchboard \| The Back Page \| The European Miracle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		On May 1, the European Union grew by 10 countries: Greek Cyprus and Malta plus a huge chunk of Central Europe, including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovenia.
		In Ottawa, European diplomats have been visiting one another's embassies, watching the new blue-and-gold flag run up new flagpoles.
		Dobrowolski says many Poles still feel that their only reliable protector is the United States, and that Poles haven't forgotten their "historical misfortune -- or, let's be frank -- historical betrayal -- by the French, the Brits" during the Second World War and after.
	www.macleans.ca /switchboard/backpage/article.jsp?content=20040510_80135_80135 (695 words)

	The role of the European Union on the world stage - Speech by Chris Patten
		In one remarkable essay, Sen points out that when European nations still believed in divine right of kings, Indian emperors such as the Moghul Akbar were already practising tolerance and defending diversity in India.
		Once enlargement of the European Union is accomplished, the EU will cover almost the entire European continent.
		On the contrary, they know that by joining the European process, they will not give up their identity or nationhood; because it is Europe’s destiny to work with its nations, not to subsume them.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/news/patten/speech01_23.htm (3173 words)

	Western European Exceptionalism
		The magnitude of the "miracle" is evident in the graphs of macroeconomic aggregates.
		Whatever patterns of western European economics and politics would have emerged from such a Great Depression-sized interruption of post-World War II recovery, they would not have been the 1950s as they actually were even if the post-World War II political settlement had survived such a second Great Depression.
		European labor movements split over the question of whether Marshall aid should be welcomed-which left the Communists on the wrong side, opposed to economic recovery.
	www.j-bradford-delong.net /Econ_Articles/ucla_marshallplan.html (7873 words)

	Miracle on Ice - Coaches/Staff - Herb Brooks, Craig Patrick, Warren Strelow
		Brooks played hockey at the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1959, and tried out for the 1960 U. Olympic team but was the last player cut from the squad.
		Interstingly, Patrick and Brooks (along with several of the Olympic players) would be reunited with the New York Rangers.
		Strelow previously coached the United States goaltenders during the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, where the United States pulled off the "Miracle On Ice" victory against the former Soviet Union and later won the gold medal against Finland.
	www.miracleonice.us /coaches.html (697 words)

	Andre Gunder Frank: Response to ReOrient Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		European miracle] and sets up allegedly untenable dichotomies that are not in the book, like regional vs. global economy.
		The libraries are full of ' exceptionalist European miracle' explanations that are empirically demonstrably wrong, theoretically much more deficient, and therefore altogether much weaker still.
		The alternative European world-economy and Modern World-System approaches constructed and inspired by Braudel and Immanuel himself and Giovanni's recent work have been a big help, but they are far too limited in their scope and therefore as explanations also still weaker than my modest effort.
	www.rrojasdatabank.org /agfrank/reorient_response.html (2946 words)

	The SocioWeb: Sociology Books » The European Miracle : Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of ...
		The European Miracle is a book I have been meaning to read for years.
		I particularly appreciated the striking delineation of how different the state as it evolved in Europe, and the European experience of the state, was from that of Asia.
		His discussion of the European state system is illuminating, and encompasses (but is not specifically concerned with) local differences.
	www.socioweb.com /sociology-books/book/052152783X (899 words)

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