European Union-United States Security Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. European Community United States Security Relations

   1. European Community—United States Security Relations

      • Adam Bronstone

      Pages 1-15

3. Theoretical Bases

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Theoretical Beginnings

      • Adam Bronstone

      Pages 19-37

   3. Agencies, Structures and Allies

      • Adam Bronstone

      Pages 38-63

4. Case-Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. The Year of…

      • Adam Bronstone

      Pages 67-119

   3. Allies, Enemies and Embargoes: The Polish Crisis of 1981–82

      • Adam Bronstone

      Pages 120-172

   4. Safe Havens, Enclaves and Alliance Politics: The Kurds of Iraq

      • Adam Bronstone

      Pages 173-223

5. Concluding Thoughts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225

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   2. Where to with European Union—United States Security Studies?

      • Adam Bronstone

      Pages 227-249

6. Back Matter

   Pages 250-282

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The European Union's evolution to become a global actor is examined through its relationship with the United States from the Yomkippur war to the Gulf conflict. Indepth case-studies of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, martial law in Poland 1981-82 and the Kurdish crisis in Iraq 1991 are shown to support a theoretical critique. The dominant 'realist' approach to international relations is unable to adequately explain transatlantic tensions in this period. New frameworks are needed to explain the 'agency-structure' of internal European and EU-US relationships.

• Europe
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• international relations
• european union politics

• University of Humberside, Hull, England

  Adam Bronstone

ADAM BRONSTONE

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