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Tony Judt considers the question: How likely is a united Europe?
I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist. Tony Judt



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One of the most prescient texts on the European Union...[Tony Judt] maps out everything we are witnessing today from the slow erosion of the welfare state to the return of nationalisms… -- Rachel Donadio * The New York Times *

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Preface1 A Grand Illusion2 Eastern Approaches3 Goodbye to All That? Afterword Index

A Grand Illusion

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      Publisher New York University Press
      Published 1 May 2011
      ISBN-13 9780814743584
      978-0814743584
      ISBN-10 0814743587

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      Book Synopsis

      Tony Judt considers the question: How likely is a united Europe?
      I am enthusiastically European; no informed person could seriously wish to return to the embattled, mutually antagonistic circle of suspicious and introverted nations that was the European continent in the quite recent past. But it is one thing to think an outcome desirable, quite another to suppose it is possible. It is my contention that a truly united Europe is sufficiently unlikely for it to be unwise and self-defeating to insist upon it. I am thus, I suppose, a Euro-pessimist. Tony Judt



      Trade Review
      One of the most prescient texts on the European Union...[Tony Judt] maps out everything we are witnessing today from the slow erosion of the welfare state to the return of nationalisms… -- Rachel Donadio * The New York Times *

      Table of Contents
      Preface1 A Grand Illusion2 Eastern Approaches3 Goodbye to All That? Afterword Index

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