Are the United States and Europe heading for divorce

Bibliographic Data

ID7805451
AuthorsIvo H Daalder (Brookings Institution, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume77
Issue3
Pages553-567
Publication date2001-07-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/1468-2346.00206
OpenAlexW2048792200
LanguageEN
Citations received15

If current headlines are to be believed, the United States and Europe are not just drifting apart. The question is, how serious is the rift? There are major differences between them—including differing regional priorities, diverging issue agendas and fundamentally different approaches to meeting the challenges of the post-Cold War period. These differences suggest that the US-European relationship will continue to drift. Although continued drift has its costs (notably in the missed opportunities for cooperation on a host of international issues), the US and Europe should recognize that this change in the terms and nature of their relationship is made possible by the very success of their fifty years of partnership, which has produced a Europe that today is more peaceful, democratic, and united than at any time in history

Cold war · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · General partnership · Geography · Heading (navigation) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy

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