Friendly Fire : The Near-Death of the Transatlantic Alliance

Elizabeth Pond examines a number of disputes - chronic trade quarrels, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol, Israeli-Palestinian violence, and Iraq - and identifies the ways in which they reinforce and exacerbate one another.

European governments have accepted a rhetorical responsibility for global (and not just European) security, but the dearth of defence funding in Europe, disagreements over tactics, and the bad American temper toward the Europeans have added to the estrangement.