Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe

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Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations After the Iraq War
Book cover
Author	Daniel Levy
Language	English
Subject(s)	Iraq War
Genre(s)	Non-fiction
Publisher	Verso Books
Publication date	May 2005
Media type	Novel
Pages	231
ISBN	ISBN 184467018X

Old Europe, New Europe, Core Europe: Transatlantic Relations After the Iraq War is a non-fiction book authored by Daniel Levy, focusing on the hostilities of the Iraq war after it had ended, as well as questioning Europe's role in regard to the war. The book was first published on 12 May 2005 by Verso Books.^[1] Although written by Habermas, the book was significantly edited by Max Pensky and John Torpey; both adding editorial content. Two years prior to the books writing, Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, two well known intellectuals in Europe wrote a report regarding similar issues to this for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Libération.^[2]

[edit] Plot

German philosopher and sociologist Jürgen Habermas, among other philosophers asked questions regarding Europe's stance on the Iraq War, as well as other issues including the candidates for membership within the European Union. The book also questions political and personal issues, with some of the questions being Is Europe to oppose the United States?, What is the nature of Europe? and was it to eventually become one nation?, although this issue had been raised prior to this by other intellectuals, however, after the split as a result of the war, this evidently showed that Europe was not close to becoming one nation.^[1]^[3]

[edit] Reception

The book sparked verbal discussion about the nature of Europe, as well as its transatlantic relations.^[1] A book reviewer of Curled up with a good book comments that "this book is very academic, especially since the authors of the essays are some of the important intellectuals of Europe."^[4]