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It is possible that a Democratic administration would not have followed a very different path from that of the present White House in the aftermath of September 11. But it seems indisputable that the former Governor of Texas has left his fingerprints on the exercise of American power. His most controversial decisions during these last eight years have pros & cons, but the most perilous consequence of the Bush era is the loss of the moral stature of the United States at a global level. Adapted from the source document.

Since the 1970's, with the European Communities first enlargement & the accession of Denmark, Ireland & the United Kingdom, two visions of Europe have dominated the debate on the European project: on the one hand, the "French vision" of a European state that should become an international pole of power & where the nations would submit to central collective government; on the other, the "English vision" of a Europe with economic, trade & financial power, a pole of stability the security of which should be embedded in the transatlantic alliance. In the past there was no real participation in the process of European integration but this "sleepwalking" has come to an end with the choice of the referenda as the method for the ratification of the Constitutional Treaty. Adapted from the source document.

This appreciation of the life & work of George Kennan begins with the author's personal recollections of the subject, then moves on to an overview of Kennan's career. Of particular note is the period he spent in Lisbon in 1943, when he was fleeing from Berlin on his way back to the US. Kennan's post-war years are also briefly surveyed, with a special focus on his strong opposition, at the age of 98, to the Bush administration's intervention in Iraq, which he viewed as a dubious distraction from the fight against Al Queda. In the final analysis, the author views Kennan as a man who considered himself a citizen of the eighteenth century, a man who understood that the world created by the French Revolution had very little to do with the world the French Revolution supplanted. R. Young