"Whither transatlantic cooperation? Where NATO and ESDP collide"

Ulrich, Marybeth Peterson and Cypher-Erickson, Dorothea M. (2001) "Whither transatlantic cooperation? Where NATO and ESDP collide". In: UNSPECIFIED, Madison, Wisconsin. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This paper offers a framework for measuring the threat of the emergent European Security and Defense Program (ESDP) to the transatlantic link. There is a range of possible outcomes, outcomes that have varying implications for the U.S. as a global and European power. ESDP will emerge as either a strategic competitor to NATO that negates or significantly diminishes U.S. influence in Europe, or alternatively, ESDP might emerge as a strategic partner to NATO that restores the strategic balance in the Euro-Atlantic partnership with a reinvigorated European pillar. With the concept just a little over a year old, it is still too early to tell exactly how ESDP will mature and what form it will take. As it develops, though, it is useful to have some measures to help evaluate the direction being taken, either continuing toward partnership or diverging toward competition. Three criteria-indivisibility, improvement, and inclusiveness-are useful benchmarks for tracking the future course of Euro-Atlantic relations.

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