Regime Change in the Transatlantic Relationship:Part I: Making Sense of French Foreign Policy
The crisis over Iraq has not created a new transatlantic relationship.
My explanation is that France's actions reveal that a new transatlantic system is slowly emerging, where old patterns are increasingly replaced by new ones, old rules by new rules. This is what I will focus on in the second article next week.
Justin Vaisse is a visiting fellow at the Brooking Institution's Center on the US and France. He testified on the future of the transatlantic relationship before the Subcommittee on Europe of the House Committee on International Relations.