Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Christine Ingebritsen is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington.

This fresh and thoughtful assessment of the developing relationship between the United States and the principal European nations provides readers with riveting insights as to America's future on the European continent.

• Chapter 1 The United States and Europe: Toward Greater Cooperation or a Historic Parting?—An Idealist PerspectiveChapter 2 NATO as a Postmodern AllianceChapter 3 A Competitive Relationship: The Maturing of the U.S.-EU Relationship, 1980-2000Chapter 4 A Relationship Both Special and Mundane: The Politics of Power, Party, and Leadership in U.S. -British Relations since 1980Chapter 5 Renegotiating the Marriage Contract: Franco-American Relations since 1981Chapter 6 The Impact of Post-Cold War Changes on the U.S.-German RelationshipChapter 7 Coming into Europe: The U.S. -Spanish Relationship since 1980Chapter 8 From the Cold War to the "Cold Peace": U.S. -Russian Interactions from Gorbachev to the PresentChapter 9 "Let Poland be Poland": The U.S.-Polish Relationship from 1980 to the PresentChapter 10 Ukraine and the U.S. since 1991: The Reshaping of ExpectationsChapter 11 The Future of NATO and the Euro-Atlantic Community: Productive Partnerships and Constructive Ends?

Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. Christine Ingebritsen is associate professor of Scandinavian studies at the University of Washington.

This fresh and thoughtful assessment of the developing relationship between the United States and the principal European nations provides readers with riveting insights as to America's future on the European continent.

• Chapter 1 The United States and Europe: Toward Greater Cooperation or a Historic Parting?—An Idealist PerspectiveChapter 2 NATO as a Postmodern AllianceChapter 3 A Competitive Relationship: The Maturing of the U.S.-EU Relationship, 1980-2000Chapter 4 A Relationship Both Special and Mundane: The Politics of Power, Party, and Leadership in U.S. -British Relations since 1980Chapter 5 Renegotiating the Marriage Contract: Franco-American Relations since 1981Chapter 6 The Impact of Post-Cold War Changes on the U.S.-German RelationshipChapter 7 Coming into Europe: The U.S. -Spanish Relationship since 1980Chapter 8 From the Cold War to the "Cold Peace": U.S. -Russian Interactions from Gorbachev to the PresentChapter 9 "Let Poland be Poland": The U.S.-Polish Relationship from 1980 to the PresentChapter 10 Ukraine and the U.S. since 1991: The Reshaping of ExpectationsChapter 11 The Future of NATO and the Euro-Atlantic Community: Productive Partnerships and Constructive Ends?