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Those in the political and business world generally hold one of two contrasting views of Europe. One view is that the continent is increasingly fading away. Many political leaders view China and India as the next superpowers-not the EU. Some observers state that the European Union is underperforming in a globalized world, thinking the EU is falling behind in industrial performance and far too slow in developing new technologies.
The introduction to a March 26, 2007, Newsweekarticle stated: "As the European Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding Treaty of Rome, the pundits agree: Europe is in terminal decline. It is a continental-size museum dropping into the dustbin of history.
"This picture is especially popular in America. As U.S. skeptics tell it, the Old World (save for Britain, naturally) is finished. Economies are stagnant. Technological and entrepreneurial energy have passed to Silicon Valley and Bangalore. Politicians are powerless in the face of sclerotic social welfare systems" (Andrew Moravcsik, "The Golden Moment," emphasis added throughout).
"The world is bipolar, and the other pole is Europe"
The author of the Newsweek article, Andrew Moravcsik, does not agree with this negative assessment of Europe. After all, he is the director of the European Union Program at Princeton University. He thinks of Europe as "the quiet superpower." To him, "the world is bipolar, and the other pole is Europe." Moravcsik believes that the EU uses (and will use) civilian and diplomatic power far more effectively than the United States.
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