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For some commentators, the very notion of a transatlantic crisis is too optimistic. The transatlantic relation, for them, has lost both its centrality & its specific character with the end of the Cold War. Different Western countries have both convergent & divergent values & interests with each other, as well as with the rest of the world. In particular between the United States & Europe the trend is for divergences of views, priorities, & policies to be more & more acute. This article argues that the West is indeed broken, but not beyond fixing, that the central importance of America & Europe for each other has not disappeared & may well re-emerge spectacularly in front of new challenges, but that it is unlikely to lead to the harmonious cooperation of two coherent entities. Rather, a recovered unity of the West can only be based on an awareness of intra-American & intra-European & transnational or transcontinental divisions & of common external or universal challenges. Adapted from the source document.

Examines differences in defense policies of Spain and Portugal, relations between the two countries, with the Western European Union, with the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union, and with NATO during and after the cold war.