Description
Book SynopsisThe damage that has been done to the transatlantic alliance will not be repaired through grand architectural redesigns or radical new agendas. Instead, the transatlantic partners need to restore their consensus and cooperation on key security challenges with a limited agenda that reflects the essential conservatism of the transatlantic partnership during the Cold War and the 1990s. There will inevitably be big challenges, such as the rise of China, where transatlantic disparities in strategic means and commitments preclude any common alliance undertaking. Yet such limits are nothing new. The absence of a common transatlantic commitment to counter-insurgency in Iraq may cause resentments, but so too did the lack of a common commitment to counter-insurgency in Vietnam.
This Adelphi Paper suggests ten propositions for future transatlantic consensus that is to say, ten security challenges for which the allies should be able to agree on common strategies. These run the gamu
Table of Contents
Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction Ten Propositions for Transatlantic Consensus -- Chapter One Beyond the War on Terror -- The common struggle -- Root causes' -- The limits of democracy -- Terror, rights and the rule of law -- The social geography of terrorism -- Chapter Two Confronting Proliferation -- Pre-emption and preventive war -- Iran -- Strengthening the non-proliferation regime -- The NPT's fragility -- Chapter Three State Failure, State-building and Democratic Change -- The six most dangerous places in the world -- Triage -- The art of the possible -- Conclusion Ambitions and Limits of a Transatlantic Partnership -- Appendix IISS Transatlantic Steering Group and Workshop Participants -- Notes.
