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4. Quoted in Charles A. Kupchan, The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), 151.
5. Quoted in John Vinocur, “German Official Says Europe Must be U.S. Friend, Not Rival,” International Herald Tribune, July 18, 2003, A5.