Suchergebnisse

Examines developments in EU - US political and economic relations in the 1990s Focuses on how states effectively govern the transatlantic marketplace and the international political order through transatlantic institutions Enables us to understand not only how domestic, or EU level, decision-making affect transatlantic decisions but also how transatlantic decisions affect domestic institutions Aimed at anyone with an interest in what transatlantic relations entail outside the confines of NATO security The result of a comprehensive research project which includes detailed case studies.

The transatlantic alliance is widely viewed as being in a state of decline. Conflict over the war in Iraq highlighted a growing divergence between the Bush administration and European Union governments in their attitudes towards multilateralism. The rift severely tested institutions created to manage bilateral EU–US relations in the aftermath of the cold war. This article examines how well this institutional architecture has held up. It scrutinises the limitations of networked governance in transatlantic relations and acknowledges the quandary of trying to manufacture partnership using imperfect institutions. The Brussels–Washington channel is only one among many through which transatlantic relations flow, but we argue that it continues to gain in importance. Despite the limits of institutional engineering, we conclude that the US and the EU remain each other's most important ally.