The New Totalitarian Temptation Quotes

“If the supranationalist vision of the European project prevails, democracy and self-government will steadily be eroded in the vain pursuit of an unachievable world peace.”
― Todd Huizinga, The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe

“A final, crucial point about the European Union: the EU’s global governance ideology grew partly as an answer to the devastation of European wars, but also in response to a spiritual void. In essence, it is post-Christian. The loss of a religious sense of purpose has left a hole in the European soul, which is being filled for many by a belief in the vision of supranational governance.”
― Todd Huizinga, The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe

“Naturally, fissures and imbalances are developing constantly in the complex U.S.-Europe relationship. What has often gone unnoticed is that many of the more serious tensions have resulted from the fundamental contradiction between the United States’ concern to safeguard its national sovereignty and the EU’s advocacy of global governance. This has been the key point of friction in the U.S.-EU dispute over the International Criminal Court. Even the near break between the United States and many EU member states over Iraq during the George W. Bush years had much more to do with this fundamental difference in worldview than most observers realize.”
― Todd Huizinga, The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe