Transatlantic relations in the 21st century : Europe, America and the rise of the rest / Erwan Lagadec.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indispensable and intolerable nation: the United States in European geopolitics -- Friends again or drifting apart? -- Defining threats and interests: drivers, processes, and objectives -- Transatlantic threat perceptions: with friends like these, who needs enemies? -- The forgotten ballast: economic interdependence vs. high politics -- Regional case-studies: the politics of transatlantic relations -- NATO after Lisbon: new compact or obfuscation of irreconcilable differences? -- Dogmas and dependence: assessing the NATO-CSDP impasse -- U.S.-NATO-EU cooperation on the ground -- The military balance: emerging threats or new providers of global public goods? -- Normative contest: the decline of Western soft power? -- Locking in Western dominance: the West in international organizations.