The transatlantic relationship / edited by Jarrod Wiener.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: A Transatlantic Community - Myth or Emerging Reality? / Nicholas Sherwen -- 1. The Transatlantic Partnership in the 1990s / Jarrod Wiener and Dan Hiester -- 2. NATO After the Cold War / Lawrence S. Kaplan -- 3. American Strategies Towards the Enlargement of European Security Institutions: Partnership or Cold Peace? / Sean Kay -- 4. The EU: From Civilian Power to Speaking with a Common Voice - The Transition to a CFSP / Juliet Lodge -- 5. Manifest Destiny and the Pacific Century: Europe as No.3? / Robert O'Brien -- 6. Transatlantic Trade: Economic Security, Agriculture, and the Politics of Technology / Jarrod Wiener -- 7. EU-US Commercial Relations and the Debate on a Transatlantic Free Trade Area / Stephen Woolcock.

This book represents an updated discussion of the security and trade issues affecting US-European Union relations, and has been expanded to encompass cultural issues. The main themes surround the politics of alliance reconfigurations, particularly with regard to NATO, the NACC, and the OSCE; the new issues in the new World Trade Organization; and the structural factors affecting NAFTA-EU relations.