Transatlantic security cooperation has developed into a hybrid object. This necessitates a look beyond the two institutional cornerstones of cooperation, NATO and the bilateral EU-US relationship. The book addresses the historical and current conceptions of transatlantic security relations and analyzes new 'platforms' for cooperation such as the EU-3 initiative in regard to Iran, various forms of EU-NATO cooperation as well as the Middle East Quartet. The contributors examine the member states' perspective on the relationship and discuss some new areas for action including a CFSP caucus in NATO, a reversed Berlin-plus agreement, a "Joint Transatlantic Nation-Building Task Force", and common criteria for stability operations on both sides of the Atlantic. The message throughout the book: there is no 'master plan' for strengthening transatlantic relations, but strong reasons to move forward with a sense of pragmatism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Peter Schmidt: Acknowledgements and Introduction - Klaus Scharioth: Responding to the Challenges of Globalisation and the Need for a Transatlantic Community - David G. Haglund/Jay Nathwani: NATO's Past, Present and Future: Theoretical Aspects - Volker Heise: European Security and Defence Policy in Transatlantic Relations: Minding the Gaps - John Van Oudenaren: From Atlantic Community to Atlantic Partnership and Beyond: American Conceptions of the Transatlantic Relationship since 1945 - Peter Schmidt: European Conceptions of the Transatlantic Relationship: Historical Overview and Some Conceptual Issues - Sebastian Harnisch: Minilateralisms, Formal Institutions and Transatlantic Cooperation: The EU-3 Initiative vis-à-vis Iran's Nuclear Program - Charles C. Pentland: Berlin Plus or Minus? ESDP, NATO and Division of Labor - Frank Kupferschmidt: EU and NATO as «Strategic Partners»: The Balkans Experience - Andrea Charron/Benjamin Zyla/Jane Boulden: NATO, the EU and Darfur: Separate but Together - Markus Kaim: The Quartet Experience: Establishment and Results - Robert E. Hunter: The Quartet Experience: A New Platform for Transatlantic Relations? - Stephanie Hofmann/Ronja Kempin: Through the Transatlantic Looking Glass: France and the U.S., yet Another Special Relationship? - Frank Kupferschmidt: The United Kingdom between Transatlantic Relationship and European Integration: Pragmatism Put to the Test - Helga Haftendorn: The View from Berlin: Germany as a Self-assured European Middle Power - Kai-Olaf Lang: Preserving the Alliance, Going European and Knotting Direct Ties: Poland's Euroatlanticism in Transition - Heinz Kramer: Turkey and the Transatlantic Alliance - Bo Huldt: Neutrality and Transatlanticism - Michael Schmunk: A Joint Transatlantic Nation-Building Task-Force - Seth G. Jones: Transatlantic Stability Operations: The Use of Overwhelming Force - Volker Heise/Peter Schmidt: NATO and EU: Reversing Berlin-Plus? - Eckhard Lübkemeier: NATO and a European (CFSP) Caucus - John van Oudenaren/Peter Schmidt: Round-up. Moving Forward with a Sense of Pragmatism.
