Description
The course will examine the economic, political and security relations between the United States and Europe before and since the European integration process.. It will examine the economic relationship in terms of trade, investment and financial flows and will examine the security relationship within the rubric of NATO. Major issues for NATO such as the inclusion of West Germany, eastward expansion, relations with Russia and its search for a role in a post-Cold War world serve as the seminar's signposts. NATO debates over relative burdens and the positions advanced by the United States and some of its allies are also studied in this seminar.