Reinterpreting the transatlantic relationship
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Roberta HAAR, Thomas CHRISTIANSEN, Sabina LANGE and Sophie VANHOONACKER (eds), The making of European security policy : between institutional dynamics and global challenges, London : Routledge, 2021, pp. 159-178
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JONES, Erik, Reinterpreting the transatlantic relationship, in Roberta HAAR, Thomas CHRISTIANSEN, Sabina LANGE and Sophie VANHOONACKER (eds), The making of European security policy : between institutional dynamics and global challenges, London : Routledge, 2021, pp. 159-178 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74050
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Looking back after the four years of Donald Trump’s administration, it is ironic that Obama is regarded as an Atlantic President. In hindsight and by comparison, few would disagree with that assessment. However, that same irony also holds when Obama is compared with his two predecessors. The divisions over the Iraq War and the scandals surrounding Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib obscured much of the shift in transatlantic relations from one George W. Bush administration. The continuity across administrations builds on a shared set of preferences. Typically, US administrations have preferred Europe to be united rather than divided; they have also preferred Europeans to work with the United States rather than at cross-purposes. However, with relatively few exceptions, the most important being the 2003 war in Iraq, US administrations accepted opposition to US policy as a lesser evil than division among America’s allies.
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Publication date: 18 May 2021