Friendly Fire The Near-Death of the Transatlantic Alliance

by Pond, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780815771531
• ISBN10: 0815771533
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-05
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

Relations between the U.S. and Europe have declined in recent years, and today they are worse than at any time since the 1950s. In Friendly Fire, a veteran reporter known for her shrewd observations of political behavior in Europe examines the widening gulf and worsening acrimony between the U.S. and its traditional allies on the European continent. Elizabeth Pond examines a number of disputes --chronic trade quarrels, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol, Israeli-Palestinian violence, and Iraq --and identifies the ways in which they reinforce and exacerbate one another. European governments have accepted a rhetorical responsibility for global (and not just European) security, but the dearth of defense funding in Europe, disagreements over tactics, and the bad American temper toward the Europeans have added to the estrangement.

Author Biography

Elizabeth Pond is currently the editor of the quarterly Transatlantic Internationale Politik and a correspondent for the Washington Quarterly.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	vii
PREFACE	ix
ONE PAX AMERICANA
The Shock of 9/11	1	(20)
TWO POX AMERICANA?
2002 Polemics	21	(24)
THREE THE FRANCO-GERMAN-AMERICAN WAR
Fall 2002 to Spring 2003	45	(30)
FOUR POSTWAR EUROPE	75	(22)
NOTES	97	(22)
PERSONS INTERVIEWED	119	(4)
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING	123	(8)
INDEX	131