End of Europe

Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age

Kirchick James

Once the world's bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for "Brexit"; examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers; and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. With President Trump now threatening to abandon America's traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the contient's security, Europe may be alone in dealing with these unprecedented challenges.

Based on extensive firsthand reporting, this book is a provocative, disturbing look at a continent in unexpected crisis.

About the Author

James Kirchick is a fellow at the Foreign Policy Initiative in Washington and a correspondent for the Daily Beast. His articles have appeared in the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Policy. He lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews

"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"

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