Suchergebnisse

A new strategic triangle : defining changing transatlantic security relations -- Jan Hallenberg and Hakan Karlsson -- The impact of enlargement on EU actorness : enhanced capacity, weakened cohesiveness / Magnus Ekengren and Kjell Engelbrekt -- The building of a military capability in the European Union : some internal and external implications / Arita Eriksson -- Poland and the Czech Republic : new members torn between the EU and NATO / Fredrik Bynander -- Strategic coercion : a tool for the EU or for Europe's major powers? / Adrian Hyde-Price -- The alien and the traditional : the EU facing a transforming Russia / Charlotte Wagnsson -- The implications for Putin's policy toward Ukraine and Belarus of NATO and EU expansions / Bertil Nygren -- The "new strategic triangle" and the U.S. grand strategy debate -- Peter Dombrowski and Andrew L. Ross -- The ties that bind : economic relations among the United States, the EU, and Russia / Jan Hallenberg -- The United States and Russia : a clash of strategic visions / Haakan Karlsson -- Conclusions / Jan Hallenberg and Hakan Karlsson.

This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU have actor capability in this policy sphere or will it get it in the future? The reason this is so important for our project is that only if the Union is regarded by the two other actors, and regards itself, as an actor in security policy does the strategic triangle really exists. Consequently, this book has a strong focus upon the development of the actor capability of the Union. In the case of the United States, it examines to what extent the concept of the strategic triangle has significance under each of five grand strategies that serve as alternative visions of the superpower's role in the world.