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

305 Pages·2005·2.29 MB·English

by  David M. Andrews

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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
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David M. Andrews
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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
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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.
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WILLIAMWALLACE(LordWallaceofSaltaire)isProfessorofInternational
Relations at the London School of Economics and Liberal Democrat
spokesmanonforeignaffairsintheUKHouseofLords.
HUBERTZIMMERMANNisDAADVisitingProfessorintheDepartmentof
Government,CornellUniversity.