The End of the West? The Crisis of the Transatlantic Community.

The paper explores the deep structure and long-term developments in the Western community, “the West” in short. What is underneath the recent conflicts between the U.S. and Europeans? Is it all about the Bush Administration, post 9/11 U.S. foreign policy, or the rupture over the Iraq war? Alternatively, are we witnessing the beginning of the end of a happy transatlantic relationship, the gradual withering away of NATO, as some scholars had already predicted after the end of the Cold War? I start with a few remarks on the nature of the Western order. Second, I comment on the degree to which we can see the transatlantic relationship in crisis. The third part of the paper addresses what we can learn about the sources and causes of the current crisis. Fourth, I discuss the various scenarios for the future of the Western order. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]