The Future of Transatlantic Relations: Reinvention or Reform?

Though the post-Iraq healing has begun, we might still ask "what has gone wrong with transatlantic relations?" Posing the question will help determine whether the last few months have been a transient and accidental phenomenon, in which case time and an effort at good manners all round will help repair the damage, or whether more fundamental - tectonic - forces are at work, in which case a more thorough-going reinvention of transatlantic relations might be in order.

To begin with, a little perspective is required. Historically, outlooks on the two sides of the Atlantic, while often similar, have rarely been identical. Iraq was not the first transatlantic drama, and is unlikely to be the last. Our differences have often been sharpest when centered on the question of using force.


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