Old Europe, new Europe, core Europe : transatlantic relations after the Iraq war / [edited by] Daniel Levy, Max Pensky, and John Torpey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

February 15, or, what binds Europeans together : plea for a common foreign policy, beginning in core Europe / Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida -- An uncertain Europe between rebirth and decline / Umberto Eco -- 'Core Europe' : thoughts about the European identity / Adolf Muschg -- The European Union faces the major points of its development / Gianni Vattimo -- Humiliation or solidarity? / Richard Rorty -- Europe, both needed and in need / Fernando Savater -- The end of Europe / Barbara Spinelli -- Are we reasonable? / Jürgen Kaube -- Foreign policy turned inside out / Harold James -- Europeans, Americans and the exception of France / Gianni Riotta -- The ghosts of the chocolate summit / Jan Ross -- The European Union and the United States : the values we defend - a response to Riotta / Gianni Vattimo -- How big is the European dwarf? / Péter Esterházy -- The view from up top : core Europe from the Scandinavian perspective / Aldo Keel -- The organizing power / Karl Otto Hondrich -- Between sovereignty and human rights : juxtaposing American and European tradition / Dan Diner -- A great innovation of our times : as a worldwide recognized role model, Europe does not need a constitution / Dieter Grimm -- Wild, cunning, exotic : the East will completely shake up Europe / Andrzej Stasiuk -- The day of the know-it-alls / Peter Schneider -- Habermas has too much confidence in Europe / Joachim Starbatty -- Let the United States be strong! Europe remains a mid-size power : a response to Jürgen Habermas / Hans-Ulrich Wehler -- Please don't be so sensitive : Jürgen Habermas continues arguing for Europe in Berlin / Gustav Seibt -- At the flea market : Europe's refusal to be defined by its antiques / Johannes Willms -- Europe has to Europeanize itself : the pothole / Mathias Greffrath -- The renewal of Europe : response to Habermas / Timothy Garton Ash and Ralf Dahrendorf -- First Kant, now Habermas : a Polish perspective on 'core Europe' / Adam Krzeminski -- De-centering the project of global democracy / Iris Marion Young -- Who came up with the idea of a 'core Europe'? / Gerd Langguth -- The Iraq War : critical reflections from 'old Europe' / Ulrich K. Preuss -- Power and weakness in a world risk society / Ulrich Beck -- Anti-Americanism in Europe : from elite disdain to political force / Andrei S. Markovits -- Literature is freedom / Susan Sontag.