The transatlantic fight that erupted in late 2002 and early 2003 over the war in Iraq was no freak conjunction of unrelated dynamic systems that whirled out of control. The rupture was a real test of the new Pax Americana and the new hegemonic style of the United States-but that style itself was...

There is a widespread view that Franco-American relations have been consistently difficult at least since the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, but not so difficult as to prevent the two countries from joining together in times of crisis. However, after having simmered for years, the current...

History suggests that once alliances have successfully accomplished their objectives, they quickly come to an end. The peaceful dissolution of the Soviet Union, however, did not lead in parallel fashion to the rapid demise of the anti-Soviet transatlantic alliance. The subject of this paper is...

The line taken by Germany in opposition to the United States over the Iraq war, which helped contribute to a crisis in the transatlantic relationship, has created many questions regarding Germany's new foreign policy and the current German-American relationship. German-American relations are...

In the wake of the Iraq war, there has been a tendency by both the Americans and the Europeans to overlook the difficulties facing the transatlantic relationship that resulted from the Iraq crisis. This approach to dealing with some of the basic issues that emerged during this time is not a...