The end of the West? : crisis and change in the Atlantic order / edited by Jeffrey Anderson, G. John Ikenberry, Thomas Risse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson, Jeffrey J., editor.

Ikenberry, G. John, editor.

Risse-Kappen, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Cornell paperbacks.

Cornell paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Foreign relations--United States.

Europe.

United States--Foreign relations--Europe.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of contention. The End of the West? addresses some basic questions: Are we witnessing a deepening transatlantic rift, with wide-ranging consequences for the future of world order? Or are today's foreign-policy disagreements the equivalent of dinner-table squabbles? What harm, if any, have events since 9/11 done to the enduring relationships between the U.S. government and its European counterparts?The contributors to this volume, whose backgrounds range from political science and history to economics, law, and sociology, examine the "deep structure" of an order that was first imposed by the Allies in 1945 and has been a central feature of world politics ever since. Creatively and insightfully blending theory and evidence, the chapters in The End of the West? examine core structural features of the transatlantic order to determine whether current disagreements are minor and transient or catastrophic and permanent.

Contents:

Explaining crisis and change in transatlantic relations : an introduction / G. John Ikenberry

Inevitable decline versus predestined stability : disciplinary explanations of the evolving transatlantic order / Gunther Hellmann

The ghost of crises past : the troubled alliance in historical perspective / William I. Hitchcock

Iraq and previous transatlantic crises : divided by threat, not institutions or values / Henry R. Nau

The Atlantic order in transition : the nature of change in U.S.-European relations / Charles A. Kupchan

Trade is no superglue : the changing political economy of transatlantic relations / Jens van Scherpenberg

The ties that bind? : U.S.-EU economic relations and the institutionalization of the transatlantic alliance / Kathleen R. McNamara

Crisis, what crisis? : transatlantic differences and the foundations of international law / Michael Byers

The sovereign foundations of transatlantic crisis in the post-9/11 era / Jeffrey Anderson

Passions within reason / John A. Hall

American exceptionalism or western civilization? / Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann

The end of the West? : conclusions / Thomas Risse.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501701917

1501701916

9781501701924

1501701924

OCLC:

1017612501