Challenges to the Transatlantic Relationship
The ongoing discussion of transatlantic relations, especially as it has unfolded in the pages of In the National Interest, is particularly disturbing to those of us who believe that the transatlantic relationship remains vitally important to both th
This will not be easy; attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic today make it even more difficult. However, without a renewed sense of common destiny, the United States would be weaker and less predictable and Europe would be less confident and much less secure.
Stanley R. Sloan is a visiting scholar at Middlebury College, Director of the Atlantic Community Initiative (www.AtlanticCommunity.org) and author of NATO, the European Union and the Atlantic Community: The Trans-Atlantic Bargain Reconsidered (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002). In 1999 he retired from his position as the Congressional Research Service senior specialist in International Security Policy after more than three decades of government service.