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Europe and the United States: The Emerging Security Partnership: Praeger Security International

Autor Franz Oswald
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 apr 2006 – vârsta până la 17 ani
Oswald argues that European security autonomy will lead to a more balanced transatlantic partnership, even though American military might will remain far superior. As U.S. leaders indicate a willingness to disengage from their former European protectorate, the Europeanization of Europe's own security needs-their ability to take care of their own crises-will proceed apace. An understanding of this process is key to an American foreign policy that recognizes Europe as a strategic actor in its own right, an indispensable ally with its own military and nonmilitary instruments of crisis management.At the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the postcommunist transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, the U.S.-led NATO alliance found itself without its erstwhile primary enemy. While NATO found new purpose as guarantor of stability for an increasing membership and crisis manager in Southeast Europe, the alliance's expansion also advanced its transformation from a collective defense organization into a security community. While NATO was redefining itself, the European Union created the institutional and political prerequisites for a European security and defense policy. In his analysis of Europe's emancipation from security dependence on the United States, Oswald expects the economic strength of the European bloc to translate into responsibility for regional security.Yet this is not to say that the EU is emerging as the primary challenger to U.S. hegemony. Instead, Oswald argues, European security autonomy will lead to a more balanced transatlantic partnership, even though American military might will remain far superior. As U.S. leaders indicate a willingness to disengage from their former European protectorate, the Europeanization of Europe's own security needs-their ability to take care of their own crises-will proceed apace. An understanding of this process is key to an American foreign policy that recognizes Europe as a strategic actor in its own right, an indispensable ally with its own military and nonmilitary instruments of crisis management.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780275989750
ISBN-10: 0275989755
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Praeger
Seria Praeger Security International

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Notă biografică

Franz Oswald is Associate Professor of European Politics and International Relations at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia, and the author of The Party That Came Out of the Cold War: The Party of Democratic Socialism in United Germany (Praeger, 2002).

Cuprins

PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: Recasting Transatlantic Relations-New Roles for the United States and EuropeChapter 1. Why Europe Matters: Roles in the Transatlantic RelationshipChapter 2. Europe's Uneven Emancipation: Economic Giant under U.S. UmbrellaChapter 3. How Long Do Alliances Last? Explaining NATO's LongevityChapter 4. Limited New Lease on Life: NATO's Tasks after 1991Chapter 5. The Europeanization of European SecurityChapter 6. Transatlantic Relations under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. BushChapter 7. Emancipated Europe-United States without European EntanglementsNotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Oswald analyzes international security aspects of US-European relations, arguing that an emergent Europe is now capable of managing its own security, allowing the US to disengage its military presence and adapt to a more balanced transatlantic partnership. He analyzes changes in the National Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy, discusses US approaches to European security under the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, and outlines the likely framework of future transatlantic relations.