This is an interesting essay which was written by a Professor of Philosophy from the University of Paris. The essay seems to have been written for European "intellectuals" and dicusses the possibility of Europe becoming a "vanishing mediator" between America and the rest of the world. This is an interesting concept, because when synthesis is reached between thesis (America) and the antithesis (rest of the world), the mediator vanishes. http://www.binghamton.edu/fbc/balibar1102.htm