End of the West?

Jeffrey Anderson is the Graf Goltz Professor and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and Professor of Government at Georgetown University. He is the author most recently of German Unification and the Union of Europe. G. John Ikenberry is Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, the author most recently of Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition, and the editor of America Unrivaled, also from Cornell. Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics at Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of books including Cooperation among Democracies and the coeditor of Transforming Europe, also from Cornell.

"In this must-read book, an outstanding group of scholars tackles one of the most critical international issues of our time: how the transatlantic partnership will evolve in the years to come. To what extent are the forces of change structural and so largely immutable to control; to what extent can policy decisions mold events? Everyone concerned about the future of American political, security, and economic relations with the European Union and NATO is sure to find in The End of the West? compelling arguments for thought and debate."—Tony Smith, Cornelia M. Jackson Professor of Political Science, Tufts University

• 1. Explaining the Crisis and Change in Transatlantic Relations: An Introductionby G. John Ikenberry2. Inevitable Decline versus Predestined Stability: Disciplinary Explanations of the Evolving Transatlantic Orderby Gunther Hellmann3. The Ghost of Crises Past: The Troubled Alliance in Historical Perspectiveby William I. Hitchcock4. Iraq and Previous Transatlantic Crises: Divided by Threat, Not Institutions or Valuesby Henry R. Nau5. The Atlantic Order in Transition: The Nature of Change in U.S.-European Relationsby Charles A. Kupchan6. Trade Is No Superglue: The Changing Political Economy of Transatlantic Relationsby Jens van Scherpenberg7. The Ties That Bind?: U.S.-EU Economic Relations and the Institutionalization of the Transatlantic Allianceby Kathleen R. McNamara8. Crisis, What Crisis?: Transatlantic Differences and the Foundations of International Lawby Michael Byers9. The Sovereign Foundations of Transatlantic Crisis in the Post-9/11 Eraby Jeffrey Anderson10. Passions within Reasonby John A. Hall11. American Exceptionalism or Western Civilization?by Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann12. The End of the West?: Conclusionsby Thomas RisseIndex