DESTINATIONS: EUROPEAN PATHS TO DEMOCRACY AND DECEPTIONS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM
DESTINATIONS: EUROPEAN PATHS TO DEMOCRACY AND DECEPTIONS OF ANTI-AMERICANISM

Summary/Abstract: Democracy comprises free elections and media, efficient government and civic society, prevailing private or corporate ownership, free trade and market economy, trans-border integration and cooperation. National and social utopism usually tend to relativize, or contest one of the above mentioned democratic braces. As modern democratic roots rest in former British Commonwealth and protestant states (maybe together with France), the future destination of liberal consensus still depends on interconnections between the democratic European states and the U.S. If the democratic core fails, the peripheries will surely rapidly deteriorate. Contemporary European Anti-Americanism mainly refers to inherent European issues: EU common market and capitalism, NATO and strategic defense from authoritarian or terrorist threats (Russia, China, Middle East and internal pockets of “multicultural” political Islam). Anti-Americanism is based on lies or halftruths on supposed political, financial and military global imperialism, moral disputability of capitalism, corporate greediness and debt bondage, American leadership in global pollution and climate change. Contemporary European Anti Americanism brings together political and intellectual extremism form both the left and the right challenging the concepts of individual, political and economic freedom, European concept of borders suspension and the development of individual freedom.

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