Friendly Fire: The Near-Death of the Transatlantic Alliance / Edition 1

by Elizabeth Pond

Overview

"Relations between the U.S. and Europe have declined in recent years, and today they are worse than at any time since the 1950s. In Friendly Fire, a veteran reporter known for her shrewd observations of political behavior in Europe examines the widening gulf and worsening acrimony between the U.S. and its traditional allies on the European continent. Elizabeth Pond examines a number of disputes—chronic trade quarrels, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol, Israeli-Palestinian violence, and Iraq—and identifies the ways in which they reinforce and exacerbate one another. European governments have accepted a rhetorical responsibility for global (and not just European) security, but the dearth of defense funding in Europe, disagreements over tactics, and the bad American temper toward the Europeans have added to the estrangement.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815771531
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	12/05/2003
Series:	EUSA's-U.S.-EU Relations Project Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	5.45(w) x 8.43(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

"Elizabeth Pond is a journalist based in Germany. Currently a correspondent for the Washington Quarterly, she was a longtime European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She is the author, most recently, of Friendly Fire: The Near-Death of the Transatlantic Alliance (Brookings, 2003) and The Rebirth of Europe (Brookings, revised 2002)."

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Preface	ix
1	Pax Americana: The Shock of 9/11	1
2	Pox Americana? 2002 Polemics	21
3	The Franco-German-American War: Fall 2002 to Spring 2003	45
4	Postwar Europe	75
	Notes	97
	Persons Interviewed	119
	Suggestions for Further Reading	123
	Index	131

Editorial Reviews

"It is a commonplace among opponents of the recent war in Iraq that by invading that country, the U.S. administration squandered the worldwide sympathy and goodwill America had enjoyed after September 11. Elizabeth Pond's book, which is a careful analysis of the widening rift between America and Europe from 2001 to mid-2003, shows that matters are not quite so simple." —John Derbyshire, National Review, The New York Sun, 2/18/2004

"What sets this book apart from so many other tales of Iraq-related woe is precisely its Fermano-centric perspective..." —David G. Haglund, Queen's University, International Journal

"Many analyses will follow, but few will match [Pond's] in her commitment and dash.... Emphatically describes the motives of the actors, traces how variously the viewpoints of Europeans, Americans, and neoconservatives —long live the subtle difference —were shaped by each group's experiences and ambitions." —Christoph Bertram, Transatlantic Internationale Politik, 2/1/2004

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