{"id":2475,"date":"2009-10-11T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/euforyou\/?p=189"},"modified":"2018-06-19T14:40:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T18:40:38","slug":"why-europe-will-run-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2009\/10\/11\/why-europe-will-run-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"91%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F7016444\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On March 14, 2006, <strong>Mark Leonard<\/strong>, Director of Foreign Policy at the Center for European Reform in London, like Chris Patton, a passionate Atlanticist, gave a\u00a0 provocative lecture based on his book, <em>Why<\/em><em> <\/em><em>Europe Will Run the 21st Century<\/em>. Leonard argued that Europe\u2019s problems, demographic and otherwise, as well as the legitimacy crisis posed by the \u201cno\u201d votes on the European Constitution, should not obfuscate the underlying success story represented by the EU and the impact it has had (and could still have) beyond the continent. Leonard argued that American influence has been significantly undermined by the ways America is wielding its military might. By contrast, the EU represents a different model of power, a \u201ctransformative power\u201d which is reshaping the world not by force, but through the promise of a better future.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11054951@N04\/albums\/72157601323538112\" title=\"03.14.06\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1153\/1062494950_7bc9357754_z.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"417\" alt=\"03.14.06\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 14, 2006, Mark Leonard, Director of Foreign Policy at the Center for European Reform in London, like Chris Patton, a passionate Atlanticist, gave a\u00a0 provocative lecture based on his book, Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century. Leonard argued that Europe\u2019s problems, demographic and otherwise, as well as the legitimacy crisis posed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}