The Transatlantic Divide: Foreign and Security Policies in the Atlantic Alliance from Kosovo to Iraq

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This books, available in paperback for the first time, examines the period between the military intervention against Serbia by NATO and the one in Iraq by the US. It has been a particularly turbulent one for transatlantic security relations. Is the malaise currently affecting the Transatlantic Alliance more serious than ever before and if so why? Will differences in the assessment of how to provide order and stability in the international system as well as in the evaluation of threats and how to respond to them mark the end of the Transatlantic Alliance? Or will the US, NATO, the EU, and EU member states work together, using different instruments and accepting a degree of division of labour, to pacify, stabilise and rebuild troublesome areas as they have done in South-Eastern Europe? This book, with contributions from leading American, Canadian and European scholars, analyses the reasons behind the latest crisis of the Transatlantic Alliance and dissects its manifestations. -- .

Osvaldo Croci is Associate Professor of International and European Studies at Memorial University, St John's, Canada. Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Sciences and holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration Studies at the University of Victoria, Canada -- .

"This is an insightful though sobering study of the decline of Atlanticism, the rise of trilateralism within Europe, and the impact of both those trends on the future of the Atlantic Alliance and ESDP. Anyone who wants to learn more about the domestic debates that raged in North American and European countries over the Kosovo and Iraq wars should read this book."--Karen E Smith, London School of Economics "This is an especially useful collection of essays that effectively place the Atlantic crisis of the past few years in the post-Cold War, post-9/11 international context, as well as in the national contexts of the major NATO/EU countries."--Simon Serfaty, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Center for Strategic & International Studies " This is an insightful though sobering study of the decline of Atlanticism, the rise of trilateralism within Europe, and the impact of both those trends on the future of the Atlantic Alliance and ESDP. Anyone who wants to learn more about the domestic debates that raged in North American and European countries over the Kosovo and Iraq wars should read this book." --Karen E Smith, London School of Economics " This is an especially useful collection of essays that effectively place the Atlantic crisis of the past few years in the post-Cold War, post-9/11 international context, as well as in the national contexts of the major NATO/EU countries." --Simon Serfaty, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Center for Strategic & International Studies