NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community

The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged

Stanley R. Sloan

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2005
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781461640271
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Ethnic Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Now fully revised and updated, this accessible and astute text provides a full interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance and explores critical developments in U.S.-European relations. The first edition highlighted the dangers that U.S. foreign-policy unilateralism could pose for the relationship, a trend that has only intensified over the past few years. Stanley R. Sloan documents and analyzes the substantial ongoing record of U.S. unilateralism and its consequences as the transatlantic and intra-European debate over Iraq produced deep splits among the allies and seriously eroded European trust in U.S. leadership. Ironically, at the same time, the United States and Europe have made historic choices concerning NATO's future, not only continuing the process of enlarging alliance membership but also expanding the concept of NATO's missions to include peacekeeping and enforcement without geographic limitation. Sloan also enlarges on his ideas for a new Euro-Atlantic pact, a call that has now been echoing in both European and American quarters. Assessing both the good and bad news for the alliance, this book remains a central text for college and university courses on U.S.-European relations and transatlantic security issues and thought-provoking reading for all citizens concerned about future US foreign policy and Europe's role in it.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword to the First Edition
• Acknowledgments
• NATO and European Union Membership
• List of Acronyms
• 1 - The Bargain as a Framework for Analysis
• 2 - Genesis of the Bargain
• 3 - The Transatlantic Bargain Revised
• 4 - The Bargain through the Cold War, 1954–1989
• 5 - The United States and Europe at the End of the Cold War: Some Fundamental Factors
• 6 - NATO’s Post–Cold War Military Missions in Theory and Practice
• 7 - NATO Nuclear Strategy and Missile Defense
• 8 - NATO Outreach and Enlargement: The Legacy of Harmel
• 9 - A New Transatlantic Bargain Taking Shape: From ESDI to ESDP
• 10 - The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged: September 11 and Iraq
• 11 - Meeting the Challenge
• 12 - Toward a New Atlantic Community
• A - The North Atlantic Treaty, Washington, D.C., April 4, 1949
• B - Atlantic Community Chronology: 1941–2004
• Selected Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author