Defense of the West: NATO, the European Union and the transatlantic bargain

This bookdelivers a clear and balanced interpretive history of transatlantic security relations from the late-1940s to the present day. The author writes in the authoritative and highly readable style that has made his work required reading for policy makers as well as academic experts on and students of International Relations on both sides of the Atlantic. The lively text is also highly accessible for the citizen who wants to develop an understanding of how the United States and Europe came to their current, complex security relationship. The analysis suggests that the democratic principles and shared interests on which NATO and the European Union are based serve as the foundation for 'the West', a term that originated in the Cold War conflict between western democracies and the Soviet Union, but which continues to have meaning today in light of new challenges to Western security.

• How NATO Adapts: Strategy and Organization in the Atlantic Alliance since 1950 (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science)
• Security in 21st Century Europe
• Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union
• After Europe
• International Relations of the Middle East
• Asia-Pacific Security: An Introduction
• Enduring Alliance: A History of NATO and the Postwar Global Order
• Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare (Phoenix Press)
• War and Conflict in Africa
• The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present