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  • Are Europeans a better transatlantic security partner than meets the eye?
    Insight by Clara Marina O'Donnell, Patryk Pawlak, 06 July 2012
    Are Europeans a better transatlantic security partner than meets the eye?
  • The US-Russia reset is over
    Insight by Charles Grant, 02 April 2012
    The US-Russia reset is over
  • All alone? What US retrenchment means for Europe and NATO
    Report by François Heisbourg, Wolfgang Ischinger, George Robertson, Kori Schake, Tomas Valasek, 01 March 2012
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  • Europe must learn to work with Bush
    Policy brief by Steven Everts, 01 December 2000

    Europeans will react with a mixture of scepticism and hope to George W. Bush’s victory in this year’s cliffhanger elections. The vast majority of European policy-makers expect US diplomacy to become somewhat more adversarial in style and Eurosceptic in substance.

  • Opening the US defence market
    Working paper by Alex Ashourne, 03 November 2000

    Many European defence companies aspire to gain access to the US defence market. America has the largest defence budget in the world – some $280 billion, or 3.3 per cent of GDP in 2000 – and is the source of much of the world's most advanced defence technology.
  • Intimate relations: Can Britain play a leading role in European defence - and keep its special links to US intelligence?
    Working paper by Charles Grant, 05 May 2000

    One of the most constant features of the geopolitical landscape is the special relationship between London and Washington on intelligence matters. One of the most rapidly changing and unpredictable elements of that landscape is the emergence of a European Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
  • Europe and missile defence
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 03 April 2000

    On each side of the Atlantic a new defence initiative is seen from the other side as unnecessary, confusing and worrying: the Europeans' plan for a European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) and the Americans' plan for National Missile Defense (NMD).
  • Open the US defence market
    Bulletin article by Alexandra Ashbourne, 01 February 2000

    The consolidation of Europe's defence industry continues apace, with the creation of a Franco-German-Spanish combine, EADS, being the most significant move to date.
  • The impact of the euro on transatlantic relations
    Report by Steven Everts, 07 January 2000

    European Union is, almost by definition, subject to strain and tension. During the Cold War some stability was maintained by the common external threat that bound the NATO allies together under US leadership.
  • Transatlantic tensions
    Bulletin article by Charles Grant, 01 December 1999

    The friendship between the EU and the US is unusually strained, and the outlook appears bleak. Tension is most evident in the one area where the EU has a coherent foreign policy, trade (the EU's reluctance to implement WTO rulings on bananas and beef hormones has been shameful).
  • Europe's defence industry: A transatlantic future
    Report by Charles Grant, 02 July 1999

    In December 1998 Europe's first major cross-border defence industry merger was imminent: a deal between British Aerospace (BAe) and DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (Dasa) had been agreed and all but signed and sealed.