America, the EU and strategic culture : renegotiating the transatlantic bargain / Asle Toje.

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Bibliographic Details
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Main Author:
Toje, Asle
Series:Contemporary security studies
Subjects:
European Union.
National security > International cooperation.
Security, International.
United States > Foreign relations > European Union countries.
European Union countries > Foreign relations > United States.
Format: Book
America, the EU and strategic culture : renegotiating the transatlantic bargain /
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Understanding transatlantic relations
  • Some definitions
  • American foreign policy
  • The making of EU security policies
  • A question of actorness
  • Power and influence
  • Strategic culture as an analytical tool
  • The EU strategic culture
  • 2. The transatlantic bargain
  • The Euro-American security bargain
  • A shared blend of institutions, democracy and market economy
  • The 1950s and 1960s: from partnership to primacy
  • The 1970s and 1980s: different approaches, similar goals
  • 1989-91: years of transition
  • The 1990s: autonomy and dependence
  • The end of the post-Cold War era
  • The intra-European security bargain
  • A common foreign and security policy for Europe
  • Franco-British detente
  • Keeping the Americans out, the British in, and the French down
  • 3. The Kosovo war
  • Boots of the Kosovo conflict
  • EU approaches to the Kosovo conflict
  • Sanctions, coercive diplomacy and air strikes
  • Failed conflict prevention
  • Coercive diplomacy and imposed settlement
  • The Rambouillet conference
  • Air strikes and ground troops
  • The ground troops dispute
  • The Quint
  • American influence and EU strategic culture
  • The transatlantic bargain and the Kosovo war
  • 4. EU and NATO enlargements
  • Why see EU and NA TO enlargements together?
  • Enlargement - a strategic act?
  • The enlargement doctrine
  • Preparing dual enlargement
  • Sequencing, financing and primacy
  • Sequencing - a question of who and when
  • Financing - squaring the bill
  • Primacy - a question of leadership
  • American influence and EU strategic culture
  • The transatlantic bargain and dual enlargement
  • 5. The Iraq crisis
  • The Iraq crisis in a transatlantic perspective
  • EU approaches to the Iraq question
  • 11 September and the European response
  • Afghan campaign and German election
  • New Labour, old Europe
  • Showdown at NATO
  • Failed states, pre-emption and multilateralism
  • Failed states
  • Preventive engagement
  • Effective multilateralism
  • A difference in means, not ends
  • American influence and EU strategic culture
  • The transatlantic bargain and the Iraq crisis
  • 6. Towards a bipolar West
  • The transatlantic bargain revised
  • A distinctly European strategic culture
  • From primacy to partnership.

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