The election of Barack Obama has precipitated a surge of interest in the future of transatlantic relations following the disharmony of the Bush years. But is the warming of the atlantic alliance a sign that the West has common interests and can act in pursuit of them, or merely the dying breaths of an alliance that sees the world in fundamentally different ways?
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Charles A. Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Kupchan was Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration having previously worked on the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department. He is author of numerous books, including How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (forthcoming); The End of the America Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the Twenty-first Century (2002); Atlantic Security: Contending Visions (1998) and The Vulnerability of Empire (1994). |
