Review: [untitled]
Author(s): Stanley Hoffmann
Source: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2007), p. 165
Published by: Council on Foreign Relations
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20032240 .
Accessed: 14/03/2011 16:07
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at .
http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless
you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you
may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use.
Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at .
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=cfr. .
Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed
page of such transmission.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of
content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms
of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.
Council on Foreign Relations is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Foreign
Affairs.
http://www.jstor.org
Recent Books
religious conflict. His current book is
both a plea and a warning. Danforth wants
American Christians to define their role
in the world as supporters of a "ministry
of reconciliation": building peace by
overcoming differences and healing old
wounds. With, as Danforth points out, a
significant minority of Muslims embracing
calls for a holy war against non-Muslims,
this ministry is urgently needed. Turning
to domestic politics, Danforth warns that
an increasingly strident and intolerant
Christian activism on the political right
threatens the comity and tolerance that a
ministry of reconciliation requires. That
Danforth, whose political success was
based in part on his reputation as a pro
life voice in the Senate, now warns about
the undue strength of the religious right is a
significant event in the politics of American
religion. Clearly, as they look around the
world for opportunities to launch a min
istry of reconciliation, American Protestants
should consider the possibility of address
ing the splits in their own ranks that have
so bitterly divided evangelical and liberal
Protestants in recent decades. Having
helped broker peace in southern Sudan,
perhaps Danforth can now help Southern
Baptists and Congregationalists learn to
get along.
problems faced by the 15 million Muslims
in the European Union and those encoun
tered by the EU in trying to cope with
them. The issue, Shore points out, goes
way beyond the matter of terrorism
and may get more troublesome as Europe,
with its aging population and low birthrate,
needs more immigrants. In his interviews
with Muslims in most European countries,
he has found deep "ambi-Americanism"
and "ambi-Europeanism." There are, of
course, profound political causes for their
hostility to the United States, but there is
also "among younger European Muslims
a growing sense that Europe and America
are spiritually empty" and a feeling of being
rejected by the Europeans among whom
they live. Their consequent fundamental
ism (which "simply means returning to
the fundamentals of a religious doctrine")
is not synonymous with terrorism, but it is
often perceived as a first step toward vio
lence especially since "Muslims on the
whole still represent part of the underclass,
overrepresented in unemployment, low
wage earnings, and political disenfran
chisement." Shore is, however, confident
that solutions can be found, and he makes
a series of "modest proposals"-such as
retiring the vocabulary of war from the
current language and creating a "Head
Start" program for low-income Muslims
in Europe. This eminently readable vol
ume deserves to be widely known and
seriously pondered. Western Europe
STANLEY HOFFMANN
Breeding Bin Ladens:America, Islam, and
the Future ofEurope. BY ZACHARY
SHORE. Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2006, 240 pp. $25.00.
Shore's wise and thoughtful book addresses
Europe's "Muslim problems"-those
A Question ofBalance: How France and the
United States Created Cold War Europe.
BY MICHAEL CRESWELL. Harvard
University Press, 2006, 256 pp. $49.95.
Creswell intelligently examines the negoti
ations that led to West Germany's rearma
ment after the French Parliament rejected
FOREIGN AFFAIRS January/February2007 [165]
Article Contents
p. 165
Issue Table of Contents
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 86, No. 1 (Jan. - Feb., 2007), pp. 1-186
Front Matter
Comments
The United States, Iraq, and the War on Terror: A Singaporean Perspective [pp. 2-7]
The Clash of Emotions: Fear, Humiliation, Hope, and the New World Order [pp. 8-12]
Essays
The Challenge of Global Health [pp. 14-38]
Fidel's Final Victory [pp. 39-56]
Saving Afghanistan [pp. 57-74, 76-78]
A Battle for Global Values [pp. 79-90]
Hands off Hedge Funds [pp. 91-101]
Has Globalization Passed Its Peak? [pp. 103-111, 113-114]
The Faces of Chinese Power [pp. 115-127]
Negotiating with Terrorists [pp. 128-138]
Reviews & Responses
Review Essay
Review: The Real Meaning of Military Transformation: Rethinking the Revolution [pp. 140-147]
Review: Civil Rights, Uncivil Wrongs: The War on Terrorism's Toll on the U.S. Constitution [pp. 148-154]
Recent Books on International Relations
Political and Legal
Review: untitled [p. 155-155]
Review: untitled [pp. 155-156]
Review: untitled [p. 156-156]
Review: untitled [pp. 156-157]
Review: untitled [p. 157-157]
Review: untitled [pp. 157-158]
Economic, Social, and Environmental
Review: untitled [p. 158-158]
Review: untitled [pp. 158-159]
Review: untitled [p. 159-159]
Review: untitled [p. 159-159]
Review: untitled [p. 160-160]
Military, Scientific, and Technological
Review: untitled [pp. 160-161]
Review: untitled [p. 161-161]
Review: untitled [p. 161-161]
Review: untitled [pp. 161-162]
Review: untitled [p. 162-162]
The United States
Review: untitled [p. 163-163]
Review: untitled [p. 163-163]
Review: untitled [pp. 163-164]
Review: untitled [p. 164-164]
Review: untitled [pp. 164-165]
Western Europe
Review: untitled [p. 165-165]
Review: untitled [pp. 165-166]
Review: untitled [p. 166-166]
Review: untitled [pp. 166-167]
Review: untitled [p. 167-167]
Western Hemisphere
Review: untitled [pp. 167-168]
Review: untitled [p. 168-168]
Review: untitled [pp. 168-169]
Review: untitled [p. 169-169]
Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Republics
Review: untitled [pp. 169-170]
Review: untitled [p. 170-170]
Review: untitled [p. 170-170]
Review: untitled [pp. 170-171]
Review: untitled [p. 171-171]
Review: untitled [p. 171-171]
Review: untitled [p. 172-172]
Middle East
Review: untitled [pp. 172-173]
Review: untitled [p. 173-173]
Review: untitled [p. 173-173]
Review: untitled [pp. 173-174]
Review: untitled [p. 174-174]
Review: untitled [pp. 174-175]
Asia and Pacific
Review: untitled [pp. 175-176]
Review: untitled [p. 176-176]
Review: untitled [p. 176-176]
Review: untitled [pp. 176-177]
Africa
Review: untitled [pp. 177-178]
Review: untitled [p. 178-178]
Review: untitled [pp. 178-179]
Review: untitled [p. 179-179]
Review: untitled [p. 179-179]
Letters to the Editor
The "Israel Lobby" [p. 180-180]
More Guns and Butter [pp. 180-181]
Counting Shiites [p. 181-181]
What French Europe? [pp. 181-182]
Europe and Its Muslims [pp. 182-184]
Iraqi Oil Production [p. 184-184]
Back Matter