ABSTRACT
Europe is, unbeknownst to most Americans, deeply into the greatest democratic experiment of its history, or perhaps that of any region of the world. It is an experiment so well along in implementation that observers privately predict that, should America falter with its obsessive wars and overspending in the years to come, the enormously expanded Europe, with a market of 455 million people working at peace with one another because of their common institutions, would become the world’s real “superpower.” Many Americans have dismissed what is happening in Europe, if they think about it at all, because much has happened so quickly. In Turkey, Croatia, Macedonia, governments are avidly changing every detail to conform to European standards. “The E.U. is not one country, but a group of countries with a common historic development.
