NATO, the European Union, and the Atlantic Community: The Transatlantic Bargain ChallengedRowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005 M07 28 - 352 pages 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. |
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... troops on shore , is now increasingly oriented toward force projection and peace operations rather than toward defense of European ter- ritory . The NATO framework provides the United States with leverage to push for additional European ...
... troops on shore , is now increasingly oriented toward force projection and peace operations rather than toward defense of European ter- ritory . The NATO framework provides the United States with leverage to push for additional European ...
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... troops to Europe . " Thus , Congress , one of the important partners in the bargain , had signed on to the deal with the tacit understanding that the US contribution to the alliance would consist largely of strategic bombing ( the nu ...
... troops to Europe . " Thus , Congress , one of the important partners in the bargain , had signed on to the deal with the tacit understanding that the US contribution to the alliance would consist largely of strategic bombing ( the nu ...
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... troops attacked the Republic of South Korea . This aggression , almost halfway around the world from Western Europe , proved to be the catalyst for shaping postwar Euro - Atlantic relations and resolving the Franco - American impasse on ...
... troops attacked the Republic of South Korea . This aggression , almost halfway around the world from Western Europe , proved to be the catalyst for shaping postwar Euro - Atlantic relations and resolving the Franco - American impasse on ...
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... troops to Europe on September 9 , 1950 , after difficult negotiations dur- ing the preceding summer had forged a common Defense and State Department position on the question . The decision marked a momentous change in US policy toward ...
... troops to Europe on September 9 , 1950 , after difficult negotiations dur- ing the preceding summer had forged a common Defense and State Department position on the question . The decision marked a momentous change in US policy toward ...
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... troops to materialize . A number of factors convinced Acheson that moving too rapidly on the rearma- ment issue could be destabilizing in Germany as well as in France . The opposition Social Democrats in Germany were not at all ...
... troops to materialize . A number of factors convinced Acheson that moving too rapidly on the rearma- ment issue could be destabilizing in Germany as well as in France . The opposition Social Democrats in Germany were not at all ...
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