The damage that has been done to the transatlantic alliance will
not be repaired through grand architectural redesigns or radical
new agendas. Instead, the transatlantic partners need to restore
their consensus and cooperation on key security challenges with a
limited agenda that reflects the essential conservatism of the
transatlantic partnership during the Cold War and the 1990s. There
will inevitably be big challenges, such as the rise of China, where
transatlantic disparities in strategic means and commitments
preclude any common alliance undertaking. Yet such limits are
nothing new. The absence of a common transatlantic commitment to
counter-insurgency in Iraq may cause resentments, but so too did
the lack of a common commitment to counter-insurgency in Vietnam.
This Adelphi Paper suggests ten propositions for future
transatlantic consensus - that is to say, ten security challenges
for which the allies should be able to agree on common strategies.
These run the gamut froman effective strategy to prevent Iran from
developing a nuclear weapons capability to transatlantic leadership
for international cooperation against global warming. If pursued
with seriousness and a reasonable degree of transatlantic unity,
these propositions could constitute the foundations of an effective
partnership. They are, in the authors' view, the basis for a
consensus on the most pressing security challenges of the
twenty-first century.
The time is right for this kind of serious rededication to
alliance purposes. There has already been some effort to repair the
damage; moreover, new leaders are in place or coming to the
countries that were major protagonists of the transatlantic crisis:
Germany, France, Britain and, in 2009, the United States. It is
possible that these four new leaders will be better able to put the
disputes of the recent past behind them. This extended essay is a
guide to the possibilities, and also the limits, of a new
start.
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