Volume 42, Number 15 · October 5, 1995
What Are American Interests?
By Tony Judt
Temptations of a Superpower
by Ronald Steel
Harvard University Press, 144 pp., $18.95
A headline in the International Herald Tribune early this summer warned that 'Clinton's Balkan shifts erode Europeans' confidence.' That is a striking understatement. In Eastern Europe, for so long a stronghold of philo-Americanism, the American government is the object of disappointed, dismissive cynicism. Among opposition circles in Belgrade and Zagreb there was a dramatic loss of faith in American understanding and good will, as the US negotiated intermittently with its 'friendly interlocutor' Slobodan Milosevic, the man most responsible for precipitating the very crisis he now offers to resolve. And in Western Europe the influence of NATO's senior partner is at its lowest point since the Second World War, a situation that will not change significantly as a result of the recent NATO intervention in Bosnia.
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