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Transatlantic relations in the 21st century : Europe, America and the rise of the rest /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lagadec, Erwan, 1977-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Series:Contemporary security studies.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > European Union countries.
European Union countries > Foreign relations > United States.
Geopolitics > Europe > History > 21st century.
European Union countries > Politics and government > 21st century.
Security, International.
Table of Contents:
  • Indispensable and intolerable nation: the United States in European geopolitics
  • Friends again or drifting apart?
  • Defining threats and interests: drivers, processes, and objectives
  • Transatlantic threat perceptions: with friends like these, who needs enemies?
  • The forgotten ballast: economic interdependence vs. high politics
  • Regional case-studies: the politics of transatlantic relations
  • NATO after Lisbon: new compact or obfuscation of irreconcilable differences?
  • Dogmas and dependence: assessing the NATO-CSDP impasse
  • U.S.-NATO-EU cooperation on the ground
  • The military balance: emerging threats or new providers of global public goods?
  • Normative contest: the decline of Western soft power?
  • Locking in Western dominance: the West in international organizations.