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