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Europe and the United States
The Emerging Security Partnership
Franz Oswald
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Europe and the United States

The Emerging Security Partnership

Franz Oswald Franz Oswald

April 2006

Praeger

Series: Praeger Security International

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Analyzes the emergence of Europe as a strategic actor on the global stage, with its own crisis management capabilities, and the recasting of roles in a new transatlantic security partnership.

Oswald argues that European security autonomy will lead to a more balanced transatlantic partnership, even though American military might will remain far superior. As U.S. leaders indicate a willingness to disengage from their former European protectorate, the Europeanization of Europe's own security needs—their ability to take care of their own crises—will proceed apace. An understanding of this process is key to an American foreign policy that recognizes Europe as a strategic actor in its own right, an indispensable ally with its own military and nonmilitary instruments of crisis management.

At the end of the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and the postcommunist transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, the U.S.-led NATO alliance found itself without its erstwhile primary enemy. While NATO found new purpose as guarantor of stability for an increasing membership and crisis manager in Southeast Europe, the alliance's expansion also advanced its transformation from a collective defense organization into a security community. While NATO was redefining itself, the European Union created the institutional and political prerequisites for a European security and defense policy. In his analysis of Europe's emancipation from security dependence on the United States, Oswald expects the economic strength of the European bloc to translate into responsibility for regional security.

Yet this is not to say that the EU is emerging as the primary challenger to U.S. hegemony. Instead, Oswald argues, European security autonomy will lead to a more balanced transatlantic partnership, even though American military might will remain far superior. As U.S. leaders indicate a willingness to disengage from their former European protectorate, the Europeanization of Europe's own security needs—their ability to take care of their own crises—will proceed apace. An understanding of this process is key to an American foreign policy that recognizes Europe as a strategic actor in its own right, an indispensable ally with its own military and nonmilitary instruments of crisis management.
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"Oswald analyzes international security aspects of US-European relations, arguing that an emergent Europe is now capable of managing its own security, allowing the US to disengage its military presence and adapt to a more balanced transatlantic partnership. He analyzes changes in the National Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and the EU's Common Security and Defense Policy, discusses US approaches to European security under the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, and outlines the likely framework of future transatlantic relations."—Reference & Research Book News

Endorsements
"Dr. Oswald provides a stimulating analysis of the evolving EU-U.S. relationship as it moves from security dependence to partnership based on new economic and strategic realities that mark the EU as a major global player."—Professor Kenneth McPherson, University of Heidelberg, Germany

"Franz Oswald's thoughtful and highly readable account of the EU's emerging security role and the renegotiation of the U.S.-Europe relationship elucidates the massive redefinition which the West has been undergoing since the end of the Cold War."—Guenter Minnerup, Director, Centre for European Studies





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