Featuring contributions from leading scholars such as Steven Lukes, Joseph Grieco Stefano Guzzini and Joseph Nye Jr, this book covers such issues as: the nature of power relationships in international relations; the impact and the limitations of specific forms of power; and, the role of soft power directions for future research.

This new volume explores the crisis in transatlantic relations and analyses the role of NATO following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The book offers a unified theory of cooperation in the new security paradigm to explain the current state of transatlantic relations and NATO's failure to adequately transform itself into a security institution for the 21st century. It argues that a new preoccupation with risk filled the vacuum left by the collapse of the Soviet Union, and uses the literature of the Risk Society to analyse the strained politics of the North Atlantic...