01444    a2200157   4500020001800000082001800018100002000036245006800056260003800124300001500162504001800177520098300195546000601178650005801184650004401242  a9780300234510  a940.56bKIR-E  aKirchick, James  aEnd of Europeb: dictators, demagogues, and the coming dark age  bYale University Pressc2017aYale  axxi, 273p.  aInclude Index  aOnce the world’s bastion of liberal, democratic values, Europe is now having to confront demons it thought it had laid to rest. The old pathologies of anti-Semitism, populist nationalism, and territorial aggression are threatening to tear the European postwar consensus apart. In riveting dispatches from this unfolding tragedy, James Kirchick shows us the shallow disingenuousness of the leaders who pushed for “Brexit;” examines how a vast migrant wave is exacerbating tensions between Europeans and their Muslim minorities; explores the rising anti-Semitism that causes Jewish schools and synagogues in France and Germany to resemble armed bunkers, and describes how Russian imperial ambitions are destabilizing nations from Estonia to Ukraine. With President Trump now threatening to abandon America's traditional role as upholder of the liberal world order and guarantor of the continent's security, Europe may be alone in dealing with these unprecedented challenges.  a
  aPolitics and governmentvEuropean UnionvAntisemitism  aCivilizationvSocial conditionszEurope