This Western Union should be a confederacy, less centralized than the current European Union and with a more balanced North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Although this proposal expresses a “clash of civilizations” mentality a la Samuel Huntington, Nemo asserts that the Western Union should promote “the dialogue of cultures” in its political dealings with other cultures…

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Excerpts from an article at the The Independent Review, v. 14, n. 3. Philippe Nemo’s book What Is the West? is translated by Kenneth Gasler, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.