Short (3 minute) video summary of “Europe's Promise”

Interview on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman/Juan Gonzalez, Feb. 12, 2010 (at the 30:15 minute mark)

Interview on the BBC World Newshour about Greece’s deficits and the euro, Feb. 14, 2010 (at the 26:35 mark)

Lecture on Europe's Promise at the World Affairs Council, San Francisco, Feb. 18, 2010 (link is to the right)

Book salon/discussion at FireDogLake.com, Feb. 14, 2010

Excerpts from recent book reviews and media mentions:

Financial Times: “Steven Hill is a lucid and engaging writer. He makes you sit up and think. He is surely right in saying that Europe’s prosperous, peaceful and democratic social market economy looks attractive when contrasted with the unbalanced, excessively deregulated US model or with China's politically repressive capitalism." (February 2010) Read more.

Reuters International: Europe’s Promise marshals an impressive army of facts and comparative statistics to show that the United States is behind Europe in nearly every socio-economic category that can be measured and that neither America’s trickle-down, Wall Street-driven capitalism nor China’s state capitalism hold the keys to the future." (February 2010) Read more.

Foreign Affairs: “In this timely and provocative book, Steven Hill…argues that the "social capitalist" policies of European countries represent best practices in handling most of the challenges modern democracies face today…Europe’s Promise explains why in most areas, it is Europe's constitutional forms, economic regulations, and social values, not those of the United States, that are the most popular models for new democracies. The oldest one should take note.” (January 2010) Read more.

The Guardian: US economists and Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz appear sanguine about Europe, with Krugman arguing recently in the New York Times that the European welfare state and social market economy have survived the financial crisis well and represent a more successful and enviable model than America's. Steven Hill, a director at the Washington-based New America Foundation, has just published a book, Europe's Promise, which argues that "the European way is the best hope in an insecure age". He dismissed talk of the EU being "marginalised" in a G2 world. On the contrary, he emphasised that the Obama White House was under pressure from the EU on climate change and financial regulation. "This, of course, is the exact opposite of the view that 'Europe is irrelevant'. Europe is actually hyper-relevant," he said. "Obama knows that Europe is leading in these ways, and he would like to follow to some extent, but he is having a hard time delivering." (February 2010) Read more.

Reuters International: “U.S. militarism has long been a core part of the American Way,” writes Steven Hill in a just-published book, Europe’s Promise, that compares the United States and Europe. Militarism does “triple duty as a formidable foreign policy tool, a powerful stimulus to the economy, and a usurper of tax dollars that could be spent on other budget priorities.” (Feb. 5, 2010) Read more.

"Like a reverse Alexis de Tocqueville, Steven Hill dauntlessly explores a society largely unknown to his compatriots back home. Sweeping away the ideological posturing, he shows us exactly how the modern European Way works and the promise it holds for an America which has slipped to become, in terms of social, economic and energy policy, the Old World." -- Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker

Lecture on Europe's Promise at the New America Foundation, Jan. 21, 2010

Debate with a scholar from the Hudson Institute, Jan. 22, 2010

Radio interview on WTOP, Washington DC’s largest station, Jan. 2010