The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress: US-European Relations after Iraq PDF
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This page intentionally left blank The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress Can the political institutions of the transatlantic alliance endure the demise of the Soviet enemy? Did the Iraq crisis of 2002–3 signal the end of the Atlantic partnership?Ifso,whatarethelikelyconsequences?Inthisbook,adistinguished group of political scientists and historians from Europe and the United States tacklesthesequestions.Thebookexaminesthecausesandconsequencesofthe crisisinAtlanticrelationsthataccompaniedtheinvasionofIraqinMarch2003. Theauthors’collective focus isnoton thewaritself, or howitwasconducted, oreventhesituationinIraqbeforeoraftertheconflict.Instead,thecrisisover Iraq is the starting point for an examination of transatlantic relations and spe- cificallytheAtlanticalliance,anexamination thatiscrossnational inscope and multidisciplinaryinapproach. DAVID M. ANDREWS is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations atScripps College,California, Adjunct Professoratthe ClaremontGraduateUniversity,andfoundingDirectoroftheEuropeanUnion CenterofCalifornia. The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress US–European Relations After Iraq editedby David M. Andrews Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521849272 © Cambridge University Press 2005 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2005 - ---- eBook (EBL) - --- eBook (EBL) - ---- hardback - --- hardback - ---- paperback - --- paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents Listofcontributors page vii Preface ix Introduction 1 I TheIraqWarandtheAtlanticalliance 1 Towardtransatlanticdrift? GEIR LUNDESTAD 9 2 ThedynamicsofthefeudoverIraq ELIZABETH POND 30 3 TheUnitedStatesanditsAtlanticpartners DAVID M. ANDREWS 56 II NationalpolicieswithintheAlliance 4 USpoliticsandtransatlanticrelations:weareall Europeansnow MILES KAHLER 81 5 Threerifts,tworeconciliations:Franco-Americanrelations duringtheFifthRepublic GEORGES-HENRI SOUTOU 102 6 Securityexporters:Germany,theUnitedStates,and transatlanticcooperation HUBERT ZIMMERMANN 128 7 Abridgetoofar:theUnitedKingdomandthetransatlantic relationship WILLIAM WALLACE AND TIM OLIVER 152 8 Therichestandfarthestmasterisalwaysbest:US–Italian relationsinhistoricalperspective LEOPOLDO NUTI 177 v vi Contents III ProspectsfortheAlliance 9 TheIraqcrisisandthefutureoftheWesternalliance MARC TRACHTENBERG 201 10 Militarycompetenceversuspolicyloyalty:centralEurope andtransatlanticrelations WADE JACOBY 232 11 IsAtlanticismdead? DAVID M. ANDREWS 256 References 267 Index 282 Contributors DAVID M. ANDREWS (EDITOR) is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Scripps College, the Claremont Colleges, and Director of the European Union Center of California. During 2002–4, he was Senior Research Fellow in Transatlantic Relations at theEuropeanUniversityInstituteinFlorence,Italy. WADEJACOBYisAssociateProfessorofPoliticalScienceatBrighamYoung UniversityandDirectoroftheBYUCenterfortheStudyofEurope. MILES KAHLER isRohrProfessorofPacificInternationalRelationsatthe Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, and Director of the Institute for International,Comparative,andAreaStudiesatUCSD. GEIR LUNDESTAD isDirectoroftheNorwegianNobelInstitute,Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee 1990, and Adjunct Professor of InternationalHistoryattheUniversityofOslo. LEOPOLDO NUTI isProfessorofHistoryofInternationalRelationsatthe Universita` degliStudiRomaTre. TIM OLIVER is a Ph.D. student in the Department of International RelationsattheLondonSchoolofEconomics. ELIZABETH POND is editor of Transatlantic Internationale Politik and a memberofboththeUSCouncilonForeignRelationsandtheGerman CouncilonForeignRelations. GEORGES-HENRI SOUTOU isProfessorofContemporaryHistoryatthe UniversityofParisIV-Sorbonne. MARC TRACHTENBERG isProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheUniversity ofCaliforniaatLosAngeles. vii viii Listofcontributors WILLIAMWALLACE(LordWallaceofSaltaire)isProfessorofInternational Relations at the London School of Economics and Liberal Democrat spokesmanonforeignaffairsintheUKHouseofLords. HUBERTZIMMERMANNisDAADVisitingProfessorintheDepartmentof Government,CornellUniversity.
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