Friendly Fire
The Near-Death of the Transatlantic Alliance
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2003
140 pages
978-0-8157-9624-4 (ISBN)
Description
Relations between the U.S. and Europe have declined in recent years, and today they are worse than at any time since the 1950s. In Friendly Fire, a veteran reporter known for her shrewd observations of political behavior in Europe examines the widening gulf and worsening acrimony between the U.S. and its traditional allies on the European continent. Elizabeth Pond examines a number of disputes¿chronic trade quarrels, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol, Israeli-Palestinian violence, and Iraq¿and identifies the ways in which they reinforce and exacerbate one another. European governments have accepted a rhetorical responsibility for global (and not just European) security, but the dearth of defense funding in Europe, disagreements over tactics, and the bad American temper toward the Europeans have added to the estrangement.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN-13
978-0-8157-9624-4 (9780815796244)
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12/2003
Brookings Institution
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Person
Elizabeth Pond is a journalist based in Germany. Currently a correspondent for the Washington Quarterly, she was a longtime European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She is the author, most recently, of Friendly Fire: The Near-Death of the Transatlantic Alliance (Brookings, 2003) and The Rebirth of Europe (Brookings, revised 2002).
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Pax Americana: The Shock of 9/11
- Chapter 2. Pox Americana? 2002 Polemics
- Chapter 3. The Franco-German-American War: Fall 2002 to Spring 2003
- Chapter 4. Postwar Europe
- Notes
- Persons Interviewed
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
