July 5, 2004

QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT SUPERPOWER:

The Metrosexual Superpower (Parag Khanna, Foreign Policy, Jul/Aug 2004)

After 60 years of dressing up, the European Union (EU) has revealed its true 21st-century orientation. Cleverly deploying both its hard power and its sensitive side, the EU has become more effective—and more attractive—than the United States on the catwalk of global diplomatic clout. Meet the real New Europe: the world’s first metrosexual superpower.

This sounds like a great new comic magazine. I wonder how they got the name away from the old Foreign Policy.

Posted by Paul Jaminet at July 5, 2004 9:56 AM
Comments

"Cleverly deploying both its hard power"? Have I missed something?

Posted by: ed at July 5, 2004 10:06 AM

people are really stretching,aren't they?

"Cleverly deploying both its hard power"? Have I missed something?"

You missed the deployment of the elite French Philosophy Brigade?

Well,not surprising,even the NYT giggled about that.

Posted by: at July 5, 2004 11:02 AM

Does it say anything in the article about Howard Dean being the metrosexual superpower's young sidekick?

Posted by: John at July 5, 2004 11:03 AM

Maybe that's what Tina Brown was referring to when she called for "a more metrosexual approach to foreign relations"!

Posted by: Ed Driscoll at July 5, 2004 1:04 PM

Ed - It only takes a few months for a joke in a liberal salon to progress into a serious scholarly analysis.

Posted by: pj at July 5, 2004 2:27 PM

In the days before Newspeak, English already had a word for "metrosexuals":

SISSIES.

Posted by: Ken at July 6, 2004 12:59 PM
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