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European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

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European Universalism: The Rhetoric Power Of Immanual by Wallerstein (Senior Research Scholar at Yale, Director Emeritus of the Ferdand Braudel Center at Binghamton University, and researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris) is an impressive and complex study of European society, its political and cultural paradigms and western cultural ideals. European Universalism explores the developmental attributes of the United States as an imperial power in juxtaposition to the European philosophical notions of progress and domination. A work of impressive and original scholarship, European Universalism is to be given high praise for its conceptual documentation as a comparative, eurocentric, sociological study of European and American political, cultural, and social values.

This book is presented in two parts. The first is an analysis about whether a nation-state has the right to intervene into another nation-state. The discussion that he uses is between two Spanish priests who are discussing whether they could convert the Native Americans that they had conquered.

The second part of this book takes a critical look at theory that has been developed in the "west" and then applied to the world with the believe that it is the one truth. The book although short is extremely advanced and is not a light read. I recommend this book to anyone who do not adhere to the neo-liberal thought, or who want to look at state intervention into areas that are not under the state's power. Wallerstein is not all business I even found my self chuckling in a couple of places as he mocks the more ridiculous theoretical claims. Although difficult it is a highly recommended read.

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