Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century -- After the Cold War -- A New Great Transformation? -- Religion and Public Values -- Globalization, Americanization, and the End of the Good Life? -- Falling Apart? -- The Transatlantic Divide -- Conclusion -- 1 The Religious Divide: Why Religion Seems to Be Thriving in the United States and Waning in Europe -- Introduction -- Understanding the Political Economy of Religion -- Religion, Belief, and Social Values in Europe and the United States -- Explaining Religious Variation: The New Paradigm in the Study of Religion -- Religious Regulation and Its Consequences -- Moving from Supply to Demand -- The Return of the Repressed? Religion and the Future of Politics -- Conclusion -- 2 Value Change in Europe and North America: Convergence or Something Else? -- Introduction -- Perspectives on Value Change -- Data and Methodology -- Findings: The Rate and Direction of Changing North American and European Values: Growing Together or Growing Apart? -- Value Dynamics in Europe and North America -- Conclusion: Convergence, Divergence, or Something Else? -- Appendix A: Countries, Waves, and Sample Sizes -- Appendix B: Rotated Factor Analysis (Principal Components Factor) -- Appendix C: Question Wording, Variable Coding, and Scale Construction I. Religiosity (Scale) -- 3 On Different Planets: News Media in the United States and Europe -- Common Roots -- Things Fall Apart -- So What? -- Different Folks -- Different Strokes -- Thinking Small -- Convergence of Sorts -- Looking Forward -- 4 One Ring to Bind Them All: American Power and Neoliberal Capitalism -- Economic Ideas and the Foundations of American Power -- From Interference to Intervention.

Rethinking the Way the World Works -- Changing the Way the World Works - and Augmenting American Power -- Does Anyone Have a Problem with This? -- Upsetting the Orthodox -- Taxing Times Ahead -- The Return to Orthodoxy -- Neoliberal Lesson #1: Activism Is Harmful to Your Health -- Neoliberal Lesson #2: You Can't Trust the Government with Your Money -- Neoliberal Lesson #3: Government Is Pointless - or Toxic - or Both -- America and Europe, Skin-Deep Neoliberalism, and the Waning of American Power -- As Goes America? The U.K. Goes Neoliberal -- As Goes America? Europe Goes Neoliberal -- Comparing Europe and the United States -- Europe and the Politics of "Skin Deep" Neoliberalism -- Exceptions Don't Prove Rules: Sweden's Neoliberal Moment -- The World Is Not Flat: Globalization and the Myth of European Sclerosis -- Conclusions: Growing Apart and the Diminution of American Power -- 5 Spreading the Word: The Diffusion of American Conservatism in Europe and Beyond -- Who Evangelizes? Why Libertarianism Spreads and Social Conservatism Does Not -- The Origins of a Convergence Strategy -- Free-Market Think Tanks: What They Do -- Free-Market Think Tanks: National Constraints and Global Opportunities -- Driving Policy Change: Developing World Successes, OECD Failures -- Pension Reform -- The Flat Tax -- Conclusion: The Future of Efforts to Spread American Conservatism -- Appendix: Pension Reform: Private Accounts in Central and Eastern Europe -- 6 Work, Welfare, and Wanderlust: Immigration and Integration in Europe and North America -- Migration to Europe -- Migration to the United States -- Migration Policy in Europe -- Migration Policy in the United States -- Immigration Policy since 2000 -- Integrating into What? -- 7 Lost in Translation: The Transatlantic Divide over Diplomacy -- Introduction -- The Costs and Benefits of Multilateralism.

Reviewing the Record -- The Diplomacy of the "Grim Trigger" -- The Diplomacy of Communicative Action -- Predicting the Future -- 8 The Atlantic Divide in Historical Perspective: AView from Europe -- Introduction -- Europe and the Politics of Atlanticism -- Continental Drift -- A Resilient Bond -- Friends Again: Quick Fix or Strategic Shift? -- Conclusion -- Index.