Allies At WarMcGraw Hill Professional, 7 апр. 2004 г. - Всего страниц: 272 A thorough analysis of where U.S./European relations have gone wrong--and how to set them right ALLIES AT WAR is the first and most comprehensive assessment of what went wrong between America and Europe during the crisis over Iraq and is based on extensive interviews with policymakers in the United States and Europe. It puts the crisis over Iraq in historical context by examining US-Europe relations since World War II and shows how the alliance traditionally managed to overcome its many internal difficulties and crises. It describes how the deep strategic differences that emerged at the end of the Cold War and the disputes over the Balkans and the Middle East during the Clinton years already had some analysts questioning whether the Alliance could survive. It shows how the Bush administration’s unilateral diplomacy and world-view helped bring already simmering tensions to a boil, and describes in depth the events leading up to the Iraq crisis of 2003. Gordon and Shapiro explain how powerful forces such rising American power and the September 11 terrorist attacks have made relations between America and Europe increasingly difficult. But the authors argue that the split over Iraq was not inevitable: it was the result of misguided decisions and unnecessary provocations on both sides. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that claims that the Iraq war signaled the effective end of the Atlantic Alliance, the authors warn that assuming the end of the Alliance could quickly become a self-fulfilling prophesy: leaving the United States isolated, resented, and responsible for bearing the burdens of maintaining international security largely alone. In response to those who argue that the Atlantic Alliance is no longer viable or necessary, ALLIES AT WAR demonstrates that even after Iraq, the United States and Europe can work together, and indeed must if they wish to effectively address the most pressing problems of our age. The book makes concrete proposals for restoring transatlantic relations and updating the alliance to meet new challenges like global terrorism and the transformation of an unstable Middle East. |
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... clear majorities of Europeans still had a favorable opinion of the United States as late as summer 2002, by March 2003 such opinions were sharply down across the board—from 75 to 48 percent in Britain, 70 to 34 percent in Italy, 63 to ...
... clear even before the Iraq crisis broke out—that the very basis for a transatlantic alliance is eroding. Scholar Francis Fukuyama, who 13 years ago was declaring the triumph of common Euro-American values and institutions to be the “end ...
... clear even when one considers the deep split over Iraq. While there were plenty of reasons for Americans and ... Clearly, the choices of both sides were shaped by the context. Americans, shocked by the tragedy of September 11 and ...
... clearly powerful structural, cultural, and historical factors that led America to launch a war on Iraq while most of Europe opposed it. But it was the philosophies, personalities, decisions, and mistakes of the leaders who happened to ...
... clearly sustained by something more than a European need for American military power. The very success of alliance had created a belief in the idea that NATO might serve as the military foundation of a security community of democratic ...
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Allies at War: America, Europe, and the Crisis Over Iraq Philip H. Gordon,Jeremy Shapiro Просмотр фрагмента - 2004 |