In Elizabeth Pond’s The Rebirth of Europe, she explains in detail the post World War Two reconstruction process Europe has been going through for more than half a century in the strive for economic and political stability. Europe’s past wars and instability is finally coming to an end. Through the cooperation of fellow European nations, they have formed a strong alliance through organizations and a centralized banking system. Pond argues that Europe, mainly Western, has formed a system that will provide themselves with the necessary means and funds to sustain Europe and possibly as a superpower. With the fall of the Soviet Union and the abomination of French and German hostilities, Europe finally got her break into to modern superpower aspirations. Despite the United States’ scr
utiny of European politics, Europe is flourishing with economic growth and political stability.
Because the United States is a huge economic and military superpower does not necessarily mean that their way is the right way. Europe should not be scrutinized because their political ways differ from the United States’ because of the simple fact that they are not the United States of America. Europeans have their own way of handling their own situations and nations outside Europe should not interfere. Europe has been a civilized society much longer than the United States and the United States must realize that Europe might have a slight idea of what they are doing and it will not be like the United States, which Pond beautifully states in The Rebirth of Europe, page fourteen. Through
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