''Menace in Europe: Why the Continent's Crisis Is America's, Too'' is a book by

Claire Berlinski Claire Berlinski (born 1968) is an American journalist and author. Born and raised in California and other parts of the United States, including New York City and Seattle, she read Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford where she earned a docto ...

about problems and challenges facing

Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirel ...

, and the consequences of Europe's failure to meet these challenges. Among the phenomena addressed in the book are Muslim integration (and the lack thereof),

anti-Americanism Anti-Americanism (also called anti-American sentiment) is prejudice, fear, or hatred of the United States, its government, its foreign policy, or Americans in general. Political scientist Brendon O'Connor at the United States Studies Centr ...

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, and Europe's often forgotten violent history.

Reception

The book has been cited several times as a segment of "

Eurabia Eurabia is a political neologism, a portmanteau of Europe and Arabia, used to describe a far-right, anti-Muslim conspiracy theory, involving globalist entities allegedly led by French and Arab powers, to Islamise and Arabise Europe, thereby wea ...

literature".

Positive

*Norah Vincent, a former Los Angeles Times columnist: One of the wisest and most compulsively readable public intellectuals writing today, Berlinski presents a work of Orwellian foresight and Churchillian conviction that will tear a welcome hole in our complacency and teach us to rethink our political future. *Michael Medved: Chilling, persuasive, and urgent. Most Americans prefer to think of ‘The Old World’ as charming, quaint, and irrelevant, but Berlinski shows why all of us need to worry about the harrowing dangers facing European civilization. *New Oxford Review: One can't read enace in Europeand walk away optimistic about the future of Europe.

Mixed

*The New York Sun: It's hard to do full justice to the rich material in enace in Europe Ms. Berlinski...has a fascinating chapter on the Nazi aesthetic of Rammstein, Germany's most popular band. But if enace in Europe hasany weaknesses it is the lack of a historical framework.
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Unfavorable

*Washington Times: "What worries me about books like this is that they risk reducing Europe to a caricature in much the same way as

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turns America into one big

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with drive-by shootings." *National Review: Her observation that there is nothing Americans can do to change urope "short of dying politely en masse," suggests that Ms. Berlinski, a lively writer always happy to hype up the snark and the spark of her prose, is taking her readers not to France, or Germany, but to Planet Coulter. *Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel: A better example of the essential emptiness of neo-conservatism than Claire Berlinski's Menace in Europe would be difficult to find...ugly vituperation expressed in sweeping generalizations...Berlinski cherry-picks her evidence.

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