Are we witnessing a deepening transatlantic rift between the U.S. and the nationals of western Europe, with wide-ranging consequences for the future of world order? This volume examines core structural features of the transatlantic order to determine whether current disagreements are transient or permanent.

The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies, largely due to the deployment of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the commitment of national forces to the occupation of Iraq. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of contention. The End of the West? addresses some basic questions: Are we witnessing a deepening transatlantic rift, with wide-ranging consequences for the future of world order? Or are today's foreign-policy disagreements the equivalent of dinner-table squabbles? What harm, if any, have recent events done to the enduring relationships between the U.S. government and its European counterparts?

The contributors to this volume, whose backgrounds range from political science and history to economics, law, and sociology, examine the "deep structure" of an order that was first imposed by the Allies in 1945 and has been a central feature of world politics ever since. Creatively and insightfully blending theory and evidence, the chapters in The End of the West? examine core structural features of the transatlantic world to determine whether current disagreements are minor and transient or catastrophic and permanent.

1. Explaining the Crisis and Change in Transatlantic Relations: An Introduction
by G. John Ikenberry2. Inevitable Decline versus Predestined Stability: Disciplinary Explanations of the Evolving Transatlantic Order
by Gunther Hellmann3. The Ghost of Crises Past: The Troubled Alliance in Historical Perspective
by William I. Hitchcock4. Iraq and Previous Transatlantic Crises: Divided by Threat, Not Institutions or Values
by Henry R. Nau5. The Atlantic Order in Transition: The Nature of Change in U.S.-European Relations
by Charles A. Kupchan6. Trade Is No Superglue: The Changing Political Economy of Transatlantic Relations
by Jens van Scherpenberg7. The Ties That Bind?: U.S.-EU Economic Relations and the Institutionalization of the Transatlantic Alliance
by Kathleen R. McNamara8. Crisis, What Crisis?: Transatlantic Differences and the Foundations of International Law
by Michael Byers9. The Sovereign Foundations of Transatlantic Crisis in the Post-9/11 Era
by Jeffrey Anderson10. Passions within Reason
by John A. Hall11. American Exceptionalism or Western Civilization?
by Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann12. The End of the West?: Conclusions
by Thomas RisseIndex

The past several years have seen strong disagreements between the U.S. government and many of its European allies. News accounts of these challenges focus on isolated incidents and points of contention. The End of the West? addresses some basic questions: Are we witnessing a deepening transatlantic rift, with wide-ranging consequences for the future of world order? Or are today's foreign-policy disagreements the equivalent of dinner-table squabbles? What harm, if any, have events since 9/11 done to the enduring relationships between the U.S. government and its European counterparts?

The contributors to this volume, whose backgrounds range from political science and history to economics, law, and sociology, examine the "deep structure" of an order that was first imposed by the Allies in 1945 and has been a central feature of world politics ever since. Creatively and insightfully blending theory and evidence, the chapters in The End of the West? examine core structural features of the transatlantic order to determine whether current disagreements are minor and transient or catastrophic and permanent.