Part 1 : European exceptionalism -- A European life -- Europe's assault on the world -- The fragmentation of the European mind -- Part 2 : Thirty-one years -- Slaughter -- Exhaustion -- The American origins of European integration -- Crisis and division -- Part 3 : Flashpoints -- The wars of Maastricht -- The German question once more -- Mainland and peninsula -- Russia and its borderlands -- France, Germany, and their ancient borderlands -- Mediterranean Europe between Islam and Germany -- Turkey on the edge -- Britain -- Conclusion