Partners of First Resort
America, Europe, and the Future of the West- Authors:
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- Publisher:
- 2021
Summary
Fostering a transatlantic renaissance to salvage the Western alliance
Is the Western alliance, which brought together the United States and Europe after World War II, in an inevitable state of decline, and if so, can anything be done to repair it? There seems little doubt that fragmentation of the Western alliance was under way even before Donald Trump's unorthodox policymaking broadened the schism. Opinions differ as to the next step, however, with some taking the current divisions as a given and advocating the creation of a new group of like-minded democracies that would exclude the United States,while others seek to exploit the rift in hopes of furthering their own nationalistic ambitions for a postliberal world.
The authors outline a transatlantic renaissance, in which U.S. and European leaders would work together to craft a new Atlantic Charter that would restore the liberal objectives that animated the Western alliance for more than seven decades. Modernizing institutional relationships across the Atlantic should help both the United States and Europe address common challenges jointly and improve burdensharing. The world needs a vibrant and energetic West to protect fundamental values from illiberal forces, both internal and external.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2021
- ISBN-Print
- 978-0-8157-3851-0
- ISBN-Online
- 978-0-8157-3852-7
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- backcover1
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Table of Contents No access
- Preface No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
- Establishment and Expansion of the Liberal Order (1941-2008) No access Pages 13 - 46
- Partners with Europe and Everyone (2009-2016) No access Pages 47 - 83
- The Unraveling of the West (2017-2020) No access Pages 84 - 102
- Internal and External Challenges to the West No access Pages 103 - 124
- Toward a New Atlantic Charter No access Pages 125 - 164
- Conclusion No access Pages 165 - 170
- Appendix: Distribution of Power since 1945 No access Pages 171 - 176
- Notes No access Pages 177 - 204
- Bibliography No access Pages 205 - 212
- Index No access Pages 213 - backcover1





