Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century : Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest

ISBN-13: 9780415683210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str.

Erwan Lagadec

Opis

This title offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Indispensable and Intolerable Nation: The United States in European Geopolitics 2. "Friends again" or "Drifting apart" 3. Defining Threats and Interests: Drivers, Processes, and Objectives 4. Transatlantic Threat Perceptions: "with friends like these, who needs enemies"? 5. The Forgotten Ballast: Economic Interdependence vs. High Politics 6. Regional Case-Studies: The Politics of Transatlantic Relations 7. NATO after Lisbon: New Compact or Obfuscation of Irreconcilable Differences? 8. Dogmas and Dependence: Assessing the NATO-CSDP Impasse 9. U.S.-NATO-EU Cooperation on the Ground 10. The Military Balance: Emerging Threats or New Providers of Global Public Goods? 11. Normative Contest: The Decline of Western "soft power"? 12. Locking in Western Dominance: The West in International Organizations

O autorze

Erwan Lagadec is a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University. He teaches transatlantic relations at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, George Washington University, and Tulane University. He is also a reserve officer in the French Navy. He received his D.Phil. in History from the University of Oxford.