Para alem do iraque: a crise transatlantica em perspectiva
In: Relacoes Internacionais, Heft 4, S. 65-76
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.