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is the wolf at the door this time? transatlantic relations after Iraq

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Realists and liberals dispute the post-war record of the transatlantic alliance. Yet, the crisis over Iraq has prompted consensus on the notion that transatlantic relations will ‘never be the same’. This article offers two central arguments. First, the US-European alliance was transformed, long before the Iraq crisis, by the end of the Cold War. Second, convergence on ends for the international order remain obscured by transatlantic disputes over means.

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Notes

  1. I am grateful to Helmut Sonnenfeldt for suggesting this point to me during a meeting in Washington in December 2003.

  2. The recommendations summarised here are taken from a study for the European Commission that I led in 2005 (available at: http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/us/revamping/index.htm).

  3. Remarks by Senator Joseph Lieberman, 39th Munich Conference on Security Policy, ‘NATO's future role’, 8 February 2003 (available at: http://www.securityconference.de/konferenzen/reden.php?menu_2003=&menu_konferenzen=&sprache=en&jahr=2003&; accessed 10 August 2004).

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Peterson, J. is the wolf at the door this time? transatlantic relations after Iraq. Eur Polit Sci 5, 52–61 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210065

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