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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Transatlantic Relations"”.
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Transatlantic relations -- are alliances a function of an external threat?
Current European-U.S. transatlantic relations represent the heritage of a large number of international alliances and institutions that were founded at a time when there was a bipolar world, a world dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union. Today fourteen years after the end of the Cold …
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Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and transatlantic relations, 1983-86
… Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative on transatlantic relations during the period 1983-86. The dissertation focuses on the three main European powers, namely Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany, and examines their reaction to SDI both individually and comparatively. The …
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L'anno che non fu? L'anno dell'Europa e la crisi nelle relazioni transatlantiche, 1973/74
… not conceal its historical interest. Even though transatlantic relations have sometimes been seen as an uninterrupted history of crisis,2 in 1973 they reached what could then be considered as their unprecedented nadir. I believe that a thorough analysis of the events that during that year found …
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EU security cooperation and the transatlantic relationship
The transatlantic relationship has been at the top of the foreign policy and security agenda both of the United States and the European Union. This dissertation intends to examine the state of this relationship in view of the recent developments of the EU's security and defence policy (ESDP). The …
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Defining Détente: NATO's Struggle for Identity, 1967-1984
… however, détente’s fortunes faded. East-West relations deteriorated over the second half of the 1970s and into the 1980s, leading many to dub the period a “Second Cold War.” What, then, did this mean for the Atlantic Alliance and the double philosophy of détente and defense staked out in the …
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The integration role of European defense procurement in achieving a more competitive and stronger European defense equipment market
… remains an important subject of discussion in transatlantic relations today. The increasing defense capability gap between Europe and the United States continues to raise many questions, including the issue of European dependency on U.S. defense capabilities and technologies. At the same time, …
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Enlarging the Union, Widening the Atlantic? : EU-US Relations and the Eastward Enlargement of the European Union.
Transatlantic relations have entered a prolonged period of tension. Europe and America have different worldviews. They are driven by divergent interests and clashing ambitions. American leaders pursue unipolarity, while their European counterparts try to facilitate the emergence of a multipolar …
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Transatlantic transactions: writing hispanism at the centennial of 1892
… revisited their common history and articulated a transatlantic Hispanic identity based on shared language, race and “spirit.” Hispanism offered them an alternative to the Anglo-Saxon and French modernities from which they were excluded as peripheral not-yet-modern nations. Both Latin American and …
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Anti-Americanism, World Politics, and German-U.S. Relations
This study examines German-U.S. relations during the George W. Bush administration. It utilizes Peter J. Katzenstein and Robert O. Keohane's theoretical framework of anti-Americanism to examine German perceptions of U.S. foreign policy. Katzenstein and Keohane distinguish four distinctive types of …
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The Failure of the Proposed European Defense Community and Its Implications on the European Union's Pursuit of Strategic Autonomy
… European integration, a broader International Relations theory will be used in this thesis. There are a number of theories regarding European integration and broader theories on International Relations. This thesis will examine the EDC from the Neoclassical Realist perspective. The Pleven Plan …
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Transatlantic Figures In Early Modern Spain (1550-1650)
… the strategies developed by three interconnected transatlantic literary figures to approach the new context of power relations, in the Iberian Peninsula, and how their literary production reflects these strategies. I study specifically the works of the chronicler Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, and …
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Transatlantic cooperation and the digital economy: The impact of the new strategic agenda “a Europe fit for the digital age”
The history of the transatlantic relationship between Europe and the United States can be traced back to 1945. The end of World War II marks the beginning of a globally influential relationship. However, this relationship has also been characterized by an amplitude of tensions. More specifically, …
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To act as a Union : Explaining the development of the EU's collective foreign policy
… in? by new institutional changes, before another transatlantic dispute has erupted and highlighted ? again ? the need to balance American influence. These conclusions are eventually illustrated and corroborated by an in-depth study of events during the period surrounding the Iraq war in 2003.