{"id":139,"date":"2007-10-24T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2007-10-24T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?p=139"},"modified":"2014-09-13T23:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:19:37","slug":"america-wake-up-europe-wants-to-be-a-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2007\/10\/24\/america-wake-up-europe-wants-to-be-a-superpower\/","title":{"rendered":"America Wake Up! Europe Wants to Be a Superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/eu_berlaymont.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6121\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/eu_berlaymont.jpg\" alt=\"Drapeaux europ\u00e9ens devant le Berlaymont\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/eu_berlaymont.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/eu_berlaymont-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">European Union leaders have reached agreement on a new treaty <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">that many Europeans hope will transform the <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">27-nation bloc <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">into a superpower capable of counter-balancing the United States in global affairs.<\/span><\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>America Wake Up! Europe Wants to Be a Superpower<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Soeren Kern | <a title=\"America Wake Up! Europe Wants to Be a Superpower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2007\/10\/america_wake_up_europe_wants_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Thinker<\/a> | October 24, 2007<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The 250-plus page Reform Treaty, which EU leaders will formally sign in Lisbon on December 13, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">calls for a permanent EU president, a European foreign minister and a European Union diplomatic service. The agreement also <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">calls for EU nations to surrender sovereignty in many areas to centralized decision-making; and it reduces national veto rights to allow more decisions to be made by majority voting instead of by unanimous consent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">T<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">he Reform Treaty, in its essence, is all about <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">the centralization of political power by an unelected ruling clique in Brussels that wants to pursue its superpower ambitions free from the constraints of democracy. The new treaty is nearly identical to the proposed European Constitution that voters rejected in 2005. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">But this time around, ordinary Europeans will not be invited to vote on the document.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Only Ireland says it will submit the treaty to a popular vote. The other EU countries hope quietly to seek ratification in their parliaments, a far less risky way than direct democracy of getting the document approved<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">If the treaty is ratified by all 27 governments, it will take effect in January 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">But can Europe become a superpower? And should Americans care? No and yes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The biggest barrier to European superpowerdom is that European <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">elites refuse to bring their postmodern fantasies about the illegitimacy of military \u201chard power\u201d into line with the way the rest of the world interprets reality. After years of overselling the efficacy of diplomatic and economic \u201csoft power\u201d as the elixir for the world\u2019s problems, Europeans are losing, not gaining, international influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Three years of European \u201csoft power\u201d diplomacy have not persuaded Iran to abandon what even the most cynical Europeans say is a clandestine nuclear-weapons program. If anything, Iran has been emboldened by European equivocation. At the same time, China and Russia, expert practitioners of the game of genuine hard power politics, continue to pursue aggressive trade and energy policies vis-\u00e0-vis Europe with obvious impunity. And as most Europeans will even admit, their peacekeeping performance in Afghanistan and Lebanon has been downright pathetic, even embarrassing in the case of Spain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">So why do Europeans continue to assail American \u201chard power\u201d as bad for the world, when their own \u201csoft power\u201d consistently fails to make the grade?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Because America\u2019s military might magnifies the preponderance of US power and influence on the world stage, thereby exposing the fiction behind Europe\u2019s superpower pretensions. Because the United States has set the standard for what it means to be a superpower, European elites seek to de-legitimize one of the main pillars of American might, namely its military hard power. Europeans know they will never achieve hard power parity with America, so they want to change the rules of the international game to make soft power the only acceptable superpower standard.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This is why Americans should care about further European integration: The EU is trying to make it prohibitively costly in the realm of international public opinion for the United States to use its military in the future. Ensconcing a system of international law based on its own image and on that of the United Nations is supposed to constrain American exercise of power. For Europeans, multilateralism is all about neutering American hard power, not about solving international problems. It is about Lilliputians tying down Gulliver.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">By bending over backwards to appease European sensibilities on Iran, for example, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has dragged the United States headfirst into a multilateral trap that has been set by pacifist Europeans. Their main desire is to prevent America from acting against Iran, even if it means that Islamic radicals in Tehran end up with a nuclear bomb.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Many Europeans are hoping the next American president will adopt more of a postmodern relativist perception of reality. So Americans should examine if the leading presidential contenders are committed to the \u201chard power\u201d that plays such a vital role in securing American interests and ideals around the world. Only that will suffice in the face of Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, and other states locked-in to the \u201cold\u201d view of power. In this context, Europeans may understand even better than do many Americans just how much is at stake in the upcoming US presidential election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">European elites are pushing the EU in a direction that should be deeply disconcerting to Americans concerned about international security and stability. The Reform Treaty will make Europe more centralized and far less democratic than it already is. In practice, this means that many foreign policy decisions that directly affect the United States, ranging from economics and trade to transatlantic cooperation on Islamic counter-terrorism, increasingly will be made by unelected anti-American bureaucrats in Brussels rather than by national governments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Europeans claim they are American allies, but increasingly their conduct says they are rivals. Americans should take another look and see if further European integration is really in the US interest. At the very least, Washington should send an unambiguous message to free-riding Europeans: future attempts at anti-American coalition building will be very costly. International security depends on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><span lang=\"EN-US\">Soeren Kern is Senior Analyst for Transatlantic Relations at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estrat\u00e9gicos \/ Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on <a title=\"Soeren Kern Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Soeren.Kern\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and on <a title=\"Soeren Kern Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoerenKern\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Link to Original Article: <a title=\"America Wake Up! Europe Wants to Be a Superpower\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2007\/10\/america_wake_up_europe_wants_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/2007\/10\/america_wake_up_europe_wants_t.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European Union leaders have reached agreement on a new treaty that many Europeans hope will transform the 27-nation bloc into a superpower capable of counter-balancing the United States in global affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[112,100,7,119,10],"tags":[20,22,9,24,129,171,23,25,26,173,175],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-americanism-european-union","category-european-union","category-geopolitics","category-aerospace-and-defense","category-transatlantic-relations","tag-anti-americanism","tag-brussels","tag-europe","tag-european-constitution","tag-european-union-2","tag-geopolitics","tag-hard-power","tag-soft-power","tag-superpower-ambitions","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-united-states"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>America Wake Up! 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