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Atlanticism or Europeanism

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Atlanticism or Europeanism

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    1. Atlanticism or Europeanism? Lead-in to Simulation 2006 Jeppe Plenge Trautner Ph.D. Candidate, ERU, AAU

    3. Europe and the US EU: The US at its worst Hyper-capitalist Pursuing Global power politics Brute force: Ignorant, Manichean and irresponsible

    9. B. US’ war on Saddam Saving Kurdistan

    10. B. Did the US arm Saddam? Iraq Arms Expenditure 1973-91: UK $ 330 million Germany $ 995 million China $ 5,500 million France $ 9,240 million USSR/Russia $ 31,800 million US $ 5 million Reference A.H. Cordesman, ” Report on the Iraqi military for the Center for Strategic & International Studies “, 1998. ( http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-610145,00.html)

    12. C. Euro-realism vs. US idealism Valéry Giscard d'Estaing commenting on Rice’s Paris speech : “The main aim of America is to see the spread of freedom, but that is not enough to organize the world. Freedom is not enough to solve all the problems in the world.”

    13. Europe and the US The US Hyper-capitalist Pursuing Global power politics Brute force: Ignorant, Manichean and irresponsible

    14. C. Atlanticist or Europeanist?

    15. Misc. sources Fredrik Bergström & Robert Gidehag, ”EU versus USA”, Timbro [liberal Swedish think tank] http://www.timbro.se/bokhandel/pdf/9175665646.pdf Jonathan Pershing, ”Global economics from a ’carbon emission’ perspective:, Climate data, insights and observations”, presentation at ”Climate Dialogue at Pocantico Session I –July 14-16”04 http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/Climate%20Data%2EPresentation%2Epdf Samuel Brittan , “The USA and Europe: Two, three or more economic cultures?”Gulbenkian Foundation Conference, Lisbon 21/10/03, http://www.samuelbrittan.co.uk/spee29_p.html Michael J. Glennon, “Why the Security Council Failed”, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2003 http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20030501faessay11217/michael-j-glennon/why-the-security-council-failed.html?mode=print ”Neocon Reader”, compiled by JPT: www.ihis.aau.dk/~trautner

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