America and Europe Adrift

Transatlantic Relations after the Cold War

Sotiris Rizas

• Publisher: Praeger
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781440873683
• eBook ISBN: 9798216044987
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: 20th Century History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book provides a comprehensive review of the transatlantic relationship between the United States and Europe, from the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall to the Trump administration. It highlights the primary factors that test the U.S-Europe relationship. America and Europe Adrift highlights the background of the German unification and the reaffirmation of NATO as the framework of U.S. presence in Europe after the end of the Cold War; the NATO enlargement; the Transatlantic Rift in the context of the Iraq War; the economic aspects of transatlantic relations, specifically the rise of Germany's weight in international affairs as a result of the European Monetary Union; and the gradual retrenchment of U.S. power. It focuses on the enduring factors that threaten the transatlantic relationship during the 21st century while also suggesting how that relationship will likely survive: through the United States' continued provision of indispensable security to the rest of the Western world. This book is an essential resource for students of transatlantic relations; graduates in international politics and international history, security studies, and strategic studies; and foreign policy practitioners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• 1 The Origins
• 2 Politics from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century
• 3 The Advent of Globalization and a Global Economic Order: A Shift of the Balance of Power within the Transatlantic Relationship?
• 4 A Clash of Civilizations?
• 5 The 2008 Crisis, the Obama Administration, and Europe
• 6 The Impact of the Trump Administration on Transatlantic Relations
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index