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NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic community : the transatlantic bargain challenged

"Now fully revised and updated, this accessible and astute text provides a full interpretive history of the transatlantic alliance and explores critical developments in US-European relations. Stanley R. Sloan considers the ongoing pattern of US unilateralism and its consequences as the transatlantic and intra-European debate over Iraq produces deep splits among the allies and seriously erodes European trust in US 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 NATO's missions to include peacekeeping and enforcement without geographic limitation. Sloan also builds 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 US-European relations and transatlantic security issues, and offers thought-provoking reading for all citizens concerned about future US foreign policy and Europe's role in it."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2005
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham [Md.], ©2005
xvii, 331 pages : map ; 24 cm
9780742535725, 9780742535732, 074253572X, 0742535738
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Foreword to the First Editionvii
Acknowledgmentsxi
Map
xiii
List of Acronyms
xv
The Bargain as a Framework for Analysis
1(12)
Genesis of the Bargain
13(16)
The Transatlantic Bargain Revised
29(12)
The Bargain through the Cold War, 1954--1989
41(32)
The United States and Europe at the End of the Cold War: Some Fundamental Factors
73(16)
NATO's Post---Cold War Military Missions in Theory and Practice
89(38)
NATO Nuclear Strategy and Missile Defense
127(18)
NATO Outreach and Enlargement: The Legacy of Harmel
145(36)
A New Transatlantic Bargain Taking Shape: From ESDI to ESDP
181(32)
The Transatlantic Bargain Challenged: September 11 and Iraq
213(18)
Meeting the Challenge
231(14)
Toward a New Atlantic Community
245(14)
Appendix A. The North Atlantic Treaty, Washington, D.C. April 4, 1949259(4)
Appendix B. Atlantic Community Chronology: 1941--2004263(46)
Selected Bibliography309(8)
Index317(14)
About the Author331