America and Europe - A Partnership for a New Era (Hardcover, New)

This collection of essays collectively offers detailed statements by a contingent of RAND analysts on the contours of a redefined Atlantic partnership. In the wake of the end of the Cold War, the authors point to the viability of shifting particular financial, strategic, political, and other responsibilities from America to Europe without jeopardising either areas defence. Individual chapters explore economic features of the proposed partnership, projected changes in NATO, challenges on Europe's eastern periphery and the greater Middle East, and desireable shifts in institutions and policies from European and American perspectives. The essays represent the culmination of several years of work at RAND on the subject of NATO enlargement and restructuring of the Atlantic Alliance. The work should be of interest to policy and research audiences in international relations, security analysis, political science, and European and American studies.