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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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  • US missile defence: Strategically sound, politically questionable
    Working paper by Bruno Tertrais, 06 April 2001

    In Europe, both governments and the broad spread of public opinion have been largely sceptical about, or opposed to, missile defence.
  • Unilateral America? Lightweight Europe? Managing divergence in transatlantic foreign policy
    Working paper by Steven Everts, 02 February 2001

    The election of George W Bush as the new US President has caused uneasiness in Europe, both at the level of individual states and that of the European Union (EU).
  • Turning East: Europe Courts Asia
    Bulletin article by Edward Bannerman, 01 February 2001

    The United States has long cast its shadow over the formal meetings of Asian and European ministers. "How will this play in Washington?" was the unspoken caveat to the normally unexciting conclusions of most Asian-Europe Meetings (ASEM).
  • 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.