Europe Alone?

The Changing Politics of European Security

What will be the future of security cooperation in Europe after the Bush administration? Is the famous rift between ‘Old Europe’ and America too great to repair? Is the European Union ready to assume a more prominent place on the world stage?

This book explores the key security challenges confronting Europe, from relations with the United States and Russia to the use of military force and the struggle against terrorism. In the future, European states will increasingly act alone, independent of America, on security matters. In doing so, they will prefer to operate through the institutional machinery of the EU, which is ascendant as an instrument of security coordination in Europe. NATO, the institutional vehicle of a troubled transatlantic relationship, is in decline. Europe is likely to act not in defiance of America, but in deference to America. But it will act alone, when circumstances favour such a choice.


Stefan Ganzle is Visiing Professor (DAAD) at the Institute for European Studies and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada. His research interests lie in the field of European integration and EU foreign policy. He has been research fellow at the University of Jena, the European Institute, and a researcher-in-residence at the OSCE. His most recent publications have appeared in Conflict and Cooperation, Défense Nationale and Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte.


Allen G. Sens is Senior instructor in the Department of Political Science and Chair of the International Relations Program at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He specializes in international relations, with a research and teaching focus on armed conflict management. He maintains research agendas on United Nations peacekeeping, European security and NATO, and Canadian foreign and defence policy. He is co-author of Global Politics : Origins, Currents, Directions, now in its third edition (2005).

Palgrave studies in European Union Politics covers all topics of significance concerning the nature and operation of the European Union. It includes contributions from a range of disciplines to reflect the growing importance of the EU as a political and social phenomenon at the domestic and international level.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-01994-2
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Author: (ed.) Stefan Ganzle & Allen G. Sens
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback 220mm x 140mm

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