Is the current Transatlantic Alliance crisis more serious than previous ones and if so why? Will the Transatlantic Alliance recover or is it headed for transformation or even dissolution? This book analyses the reasons behind the latest Transatlantic Alliance crisis, dissects its manifestations, and explores its future.

Introduction - Osvaldo Croci and Amy Verdun PART 1 - The international context 1. Transatlantic security relations from Kosovo to Iraq - Stanley Sloan 2. NATO after Atlanticism - David Long 3. Which Venus? A normative reading of the transatlantic divide - Sonia Lucarelli 4. From out of adversity: Kosovo, Iraq and ESDP - Anand Menon 5. Kosovo, Iraq, and the evolution of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention - Francis K. Abiew 6. Managing multilateralism? EU-US relations and the challenges of regime building in South-eastern Europe - Lenard Cohen 7. Kosovo and Iraq: two test cases for the partnership between post-Soviet Russia and the West - Isabelle Facon PART II - The domestic contexts 8. From compellence to pre-emption: Kosovo and Iraq as US responses to contested hegemony - Michael Wallack 9. Competing for leadership in West European defence: France, Great Britain and the wars in Kosovo and Iraq - Alex MacLeod 10. Between Kosovo and Iraq: changing paradigms of German foreign and security policy? - Udo Diedrichs 11. A tale of two coalitions: Italy faces Kosovo and Iraq - Osvaldo Croci 12. The neutral states and the challenge of ESDP: Kosovo, Iraq, and the transatlantic divide - Nicholas Rees 13. A change of road: Canadian foreign policy from Kosovo to Iraq - Bill McGrath Conclusion - Osvaldo Croci and Amy Verdun Bibliography

This book, available in paperback for the first time, examines the period between the military intervention against Serbia by NATO and the one in Iraq by the US. It has been a particularly turbulent one for transatlantic security relations. Is the malaise currently affecting the Transatlantic Alliance more serious than ever before and if so why? Will differences in the assessment of how to provide order and stability in the international system as well as in the evaluation of threats and how to respond to them mark the end of the Transatlantic Alliance? Or will the US, NATO, the EU, and EU member states work together, using different instruments and accepting a degree of division of labour, to pacify, stabilise and rebuild troublesome areas as they have done in South-Eastern Europe? This book, with contributions from leading American, Canadian and European scholars, analyses the reasons behind the latest crisis of the Transatlantic Alliance and dissects its manifestations.