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The End of Europe:Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age
James Kirchick
Yale University Press
Mar. 2017
288pp
書籍編號:
03-8901
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歐洲,過去長年被視為打破國族主義的烏托邦,一個安全、富裕、自由的國度,卻可能在接下來的十年內變成世界上最危險的引爆點。

在《歐洲的終結》(The End of Europe)裡, 華府智庫「外交政策倡議」(Foreign Policy Initiative)研究員暨駐華府記者柯奇克(James Kirchick)首先在序言透過一幅駭人的近未來景象衝擊讀者。他所描繪的2026年的歐洲,卻似乎不難想像:左翼右翼民粹分子掌握大權,伊斯蘭恐怖份子成為新主流,猶太人再度為生存逃亡,俄羅斯持續以武力擴張國土,歐盟與北約已全部瓦解。

這是科幻小說嗎?作者進入序論後提出反問,並逐步說明此未來推測的理據。過去七十五年,美國人始終視歐洲為最堅定的盟友、貿易夥伴、同樣信奉西方自由價值的友伴。這個期間,曾被戰爭、種族屠殺、貧困分裂的歐洲,度過了最長一段的和平與繁榮。然而,歐洲即將面對的未來恐怕是因政治混亂、社會衝突造成的經濟癱瘓,威脅內外交迫意圖迫使其分崩離析。

《歐洲的終結》融合作者的跨歐洲旅行紀實、歷史與政治地理分析,拆解這些分裂歐洲的力量。每一個章節聚焦一個國家,其中人物的掙扎皆體現歐洲面臨的存續危機,將俄羅斯與烏克蘭的戰爭、二次戰後以來最大移民危機、歐元區債務、民粹政黨崛起、伊斯蘭基本教義派對西方世界宣戰日益加劇等問題,交織成緊湊且富知識性的敘事,闡述這些挑戰對整個世界又有何重要性。作者與政治家、情報員、軍隊領導人、新共產主義者、新法西斯、一般歐洲人民的相遇,描繪出一幅令人憂心驚懼、再度為歷史幽靈威脅侵噬的歐洲圖像。

目次

Prologue The European Nightmare
Introduction
Chapter 1 Estonia: Europe’s Edge
Chapter 2 Hungary: Democracy without Democrats
Chapter 3 Germany: The Return of Rapallo
Chapter 4 Brussels: The God that Failed
Chapter 5 France: Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité – Without Jews
Chapter 6 Great Britain: In or Out?
Chapter 7 Greece: From Polis to Populists
Chapter 8 Ukraine: The New West Berlin
Conclusion
Epilogue The European Dream

 

● 作者簡介

James Kirchick,現駐華府外電記者、華府智庫「外交政策倡議」(Foreign Policy Initiative)研究員、《每日野獸》(The Daily Beast)記者。曾赴南非與北非、中東、中亞、歐洲大陸與高加索地區報導。曾在布拉格生活,擔任自由歐洲廣播電台/自由廣播電台(Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty))駐外記者。曾任柏林博世基金會(Robert Bosch Foundation)研究員,在阿登納基金會(Konrad Adenauer Foundation)和明鏡線上(Spiegel Online)工服務。

柯奇克曾在奧斯陸自由論壇(Oslo Freedom Forum)、日內瓦人權與民主高峰會(Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy)、斯德哥爾摩自由世界論壇(Stockholm Free World Forum)、德國阿登納基金會(Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)、耶魯大學、哥倫比亞大學和普林斯頓大學發表演說。撰述常見於《華爾街日報》、《石板》、《外交政策》媒體,也是《法蘭克福彙報》(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)、《明鏡週刊》、《真理報》(Pravda)、《共和國報》(La Repubblica )、《衛報》定期撰稿人。

 

● 媒體報導

"James Kirchick is a gloomily brilliant observer of European affairs—panoramic in his survey, precise in his details and anecdotes, severe and persuasive in his judgments, always lucid, always alert."—Paul Berman, author of The Flight of the Intellectuals and Power and the Idealists

"Like all dystopias, The End of Europe is pedagogy with a fierce moral message. James Kirchick has drawn a masterly portrait of a continent in its deepest crisis since World War II. The book is compulsory reading for anybody who cares about Europe."—Josef Joffe, Stanford University and author of The Myth of American Decline

"James Kirchick has given us a powerful, penetrating, and elegant analysis of the present state of Europe. This book is not a celebration but a lament and a warning—and also a call to action to Americans and Europeans alike."—Robert Kagan, author of The World America Made

“Those of us who lived on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall celebrated the beginning of a new era of peace and democracy when the Iron Curtain fell. Now that era may already be over, and James Kirchick vividly explains why we are now facing the end of Europe instead of the end of history.”—Garry Kasparov, chairman of the Human Rights Foundation and author of Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped