COMMENTARY: EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES, ALLIES IN CRISIS

  BARCELONA, Jul. 14, 2014 (IPS/GIN) - A few decades ago, even before the end of the Cold War and before and after Ronald Reagan's election to the White House, analyses regularly referred to U.S. decadence. At other times, it was Europe's turn for pessimistic descriptions, especially when...

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Published inGlobal Information Network
Main Author Roy, Joaquin
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Global Information Network 14.07.2014
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Reagan, Ronald Wilson
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Summary:  BARCELONA, Jul. 14, 2014 (IPS/GIN) - A few decades ago, even before the end of the Cold War and before and after Ronald Reagan's election to the White House, analyses regularly referred to U.S. decadence. At other times, it was Europe's turn for pessimistic descriptions, especially when it could not overcome its ambivalence over deepening integration, and above all because of the failure of its constitutional project. Hillary Clinton may inherit this liability if she finally decides to run for the presidency. What is certain is that indecision in Syria, the disaster of Iraq's disintegration and the still unsolved challenge of Russia in Ukraine, create a picture of the United States in international decline. On the other hand, the shores of Italy are being bombarded by desperate migrants cast up by traffickers, resulting in shipwrecks and deaths by suffocation. Elsewhere, attempts to take the Spanish border by storm in the enclaves in Morocco have ceased to call attention as newsworthy.