p. 1
..."they (Americans) see Europe's belief in international institutions and the rule of international law as weak and unworldly - a luxurious delusion which post-9/11 America can no longer afford..essence of the European position: lazy, free-riding, idealistic and weak.

p 2
America's economic lead over the rest of the world has diapperaed (in 1950 its GDP was twice the size of Western Europe's and five times Japan's; today its GDP is the same size as the EU's and less than double that of Japan's

.....showed that the price for saying no to the United States ahs been going down. In fact American dominance is only celar-cut on two levels: the ability to fight and win intensive conventional wars, and the ubiquity of American popular culture....
... kinds of power as ' hard' and ' soft': the ability to get your way by coercion and attraction. Both are declining currencies.

p3

What is more, as the administration (US) becomes obsessedwith 'Hard Power', it further ereodes Amrerican 'Soft Power' by replacing memories of America as saviour with fear of the instability its war on terror is causing.

p6
The USA may have changed the regime in Afghanistan, but Europe is changing all of Polish society, from its economic policies and property laws to its treatment of minorities and what gets served on the nation's tables.
Europe doesn't change countries by threatening to invade them: its biggest threat is having nothing to do with them at all. While the EU is deeply involved in Serbia's reconsruction and supports its desire to be rehabiltated as a European state, the USA offers Colombia no such hope of interation through multilateral institutions or structural funds......