The US-EU Security Relationship - The Tensions between a European and a Global Agenda

A constantly evolving security agenda has become a vital part of US-EU relations. Contemporary security challenges such as the rise of international terrorism and the threat from ''states of concern'' have - in recent years - forced the US and the EU to adapt their relationship and work together in new ways.Written by a leading authority, this incisive and wide-ranging book systematically examines the development of the transatlantic security relationship in the post-Cold War era. It assesses the nature of the US and EU as international actors and considers how they cooperate together. Rees argues that - despite divergences of interest after the end of the Cold War - the complex nature of contemporary challenges is driving both sides of the Atlantic towards increased cooperation. In addition, the book looks in detail at how global and European issues such as EU defence and enlargement policies, nuclear non-proliferation, and the war on terror have affected security relations.>

List of contents

Introduction
Conceptualising the Transatlantic Relationship
States and Institutional Relationships
ESDI to CSDP
Enlargement of the European Union
States of Concern
Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Counter-Proliferation
Transatlantic Homeland Security Cooperation
Conclusion.

About the author

Wyn Rees

Product details

• Authors: G. Wyn Rees, Wyn Rees, Rees Wyn
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2011
• EAN: 9780230221840
• ISBN: 978-0-230-22184-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: The European Union Series; European Union (Hardcover Adul; The European Union Series; European Union; European Union (Hardcover Adul
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, European Politics, European Union, Political Science and International Studies, United States of America, USA, EU (European Union), International institutions, European Union Politics, Political leaders and leadership