Sunday, March 11, 2012

Laqueur, After the Fall (2012)

Walter Laqueur.
After the Fall: The End of the European Dream and the Decline of a Continent.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books (an imprint of St. Martin's Press, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd., owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), 2012.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Author's website; Walter Laqueur, Wikipedia.

I do not recommend this book. The book contains absolutely no economic analysis, something Laqueur ignores completely. Instead, Laqueur attributes European nations' problems to the European Union and his anxieties about the presence of too many Muslim and brown-skined people. Only readers interested in superficial Euroskeptic and Islamophobic analysis should consider this book; it does contain an extensive bibliography of the Islamophobic literature of several countries and in several languages.