In a radical challenge to our understanding of the nature of global influence, Mark Leonard, one of Europe's brightest new policy thinkers, shows us that America is stuck in a mindset that allowed us to dominate the twentieth century but which many not prove effective now. America's centralized, militarized supremacy has become so overwhelming that it has defeated everything, including itself. Europe's reach, by contrast, is broad and deep. It draws other countries into its orbit rather than seeking to define itself against them. A new type of power has emerged, and it is something we cannot afford to ignore.