Security Strategy and Transatlantic Relations

In this much-needed study of current strategic thinking on both sides of the Atlantic, a diverse collection of leading European and American analysts are assembled to tackle key questions that remain unanswered in the existing literature: how much do new security strategies signal convergence or divergence in US and EU foreign and security policy doctrine? what tangible political and policy impacts can be attributed to new security strategies? what are the implications for US and EU policies towards specific regions? what are the prospects for collective transatlantic action? The legacy of 9/11 is scrutinized against the backdrop of the strategic thinking that preceded it. In the 1990s, the US struggled to develop a new doctrine for American foreign policy, seeking at various times to promote a ‘New World Order’ or ‘democratic enlargement’. For its part, the EU had tried to underpin its new Common Foreign and Security Policy with a coherent set of ‘European values’ – multilateralism, human rights, environmental protection, and poverty reduction – that were best defended via collective European action. Key continuities and changes in these transatlantic efforts since 9/11 are clearly identified and closely examined.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Security Strategy as Doctrine? 2. The European Security Strategy: An American View 3. The US National Security Strategy: European Reactions 4. Security Strategy: What Roles for Institutions? 5. Security Strategy and the 'War on Terror' 6. The Middle East and Security Strategy 7. Security Strategy and the 'Russia Problem' 8. China and Security Strategy 9. Security Strategy and the Arms Industry 10. Security Strategy, ESDP, and Non-Aligned States 11. Measuring Up: The Strategies as Strategy 12. Conclusion: Alliance Dead or Alive? Appendix 1. The National Security Strategy of the United States Appendix 2. The European Security Strategy

About the Author :
Roland Dannreuther is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Edinburgh. John Peterson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Edinburgh.