The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: US-European Relations after Iraq

by Edited by David M. Andrews

• ISBN13: 9780521849272
• ISBN10: 0521849276
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Can the political institutions of the transatlantic alliance endure the demise of the Soviet enemy? Did the Iraq crisis of 2002-3 signal the final demise of the Atlantic partnership? If so, what are the likely consequences? In this book a distinguished group of political scientists and historians from Europe and the United States tackle these questions. The book examines the causes and consequences of the crisis in Atlantic relations that accompanied the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The authors' collective focus is not on the war itself, or how it was conducted, or even the situation in Iraq either before or after the conflict. Instead, the crisis over Iraq is the starting point for an examination of transatlantic relations and specifically the Atlantic alliance, an examination that is cross-national in scope and multi-disciplinary in approach.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
The Iraq War and the Atlantic alliance
Toward transatlantic drift?	9	(21)
Geir Lundestad
The dynamics of the feud over Iraq	30	(26)
Elizabeth Pond
The United States and its Atlantic partners	56	(25)
David M. Andrews
National policies within the Alliance
US politics and transatlantic relations: we are all Europeans now	81	(21)
Miles Kahler
Three rifts, two reconciliations: Franco-American relations during the Fifth Republic	102	(26)
Georges-Henri Soutou
Security exporters: Germany, the United States, and transatlantic cooperation	128	(24)
Hubert Zimmermann
A bridge too far: the United Kingdom and the transatlantic relationship	152	(25)
William Wallace
Tim Oliver
The richest and farthest master is always best: US--Italian relations in historical perspective	177	(24)
Leopoldo Nuti
Prospects for the Alliance
The Iraq crisis and the future of the Western alliance	201	(31)
Marc Trachtenberg
Military competence versus policy loyalty: central Europe and transatlantic relations	232	(24)
Wade Jacoby
Is Atlanticism dead?	256	(11)
David M. Andrews
References	267	(15)
Index	282