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The Shared Transatlantic Jurisprudence of Dignity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Russell Miller

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Critiques of Robert Kagan's recent, inflamatory work on the nature and state of transatlanticisim seem to come in three forms: material, analytical and emotional. By “material” I mean critiques of the fundamental and more or less obvious facts and structures out of which he has spun his claims. These facts amount to little more than the less than revelatory reminder that the U.S. devotes considerably more resources to security and defense spending than do Europeans. Critiques of Kagan's work at this level are pointless. At least on this much, Kagan has it right: we are now all too familiar with the staggering statistic that reveals that American security and defense spending is equal to the total of the expenditures of the next twenty countries.

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Special Issue
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German Law Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 9: Special Issue , 01 September 2003 , pp. 925 - 934
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Copyright © 2003 by German Law Journal GbR 

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