Changing transatlantic security relations : do the US, the EU and Russia form a new strategic triangle? / / edited by Jan Hallenberg and Hakan Karlsson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765824403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2017; ©2006
• ISBN: 1-134-16635-4; 1-134-16636-2; 1-280-55281-6; 9786610552818; 0-203-96956-1
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary security studies
• Disciplina: 327.1; 355.031; 355/.03300511
• Soggetti: United States Foreign relations European Union countries; European Union countries Foreign relations United States; United States Foreign relations Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) Foreign relations United States; European Union countries Foreign relations Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) Foreign relations European Union countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages. 216-241) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; 1. A NEW STRATEGIC TRIANGLE: Defining changing transatlantic security relations; 2. THE IMPACT OF ENLARGEMENT ON EU ACTORNESS: Enhanced capacity, weakened cohesiveness; 3. THE BUILDING OF A MILITARY CAPABILITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: Some internal and external implications; 4. POLAND AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: New members torn between the EU and NATO; 5. STRATEGIC COERCION: A tool for the EU or for Europe's major powers?; 6. THE ALIEN AND THE TRADITIONAL: The EU facing a transforming Russia7. THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PUTIN'S POLICY TOWARD UKRAINE AND BELARUS OF NATO AND EU EXPANSION; 8. THE 'NEW STRATEGIC TRIANGLE' AND THE US GRAND STRATEGY DEBATE; 9. THE TIES THAT BIND?: Economic relations among the United States, the EU, and Russia; 10. THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA: A clash of strategic visions; 11. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: This new book shows how the idea of a strategic triangle can illuminate the security relationships among the United States, the European Union and Russia in the greater transatlantic sphere. This concept highlights how the relationships among these three actors may, on some issues, be closely related. A central question also follows directly from the use of the notion of the triangle: does the EU have actor capability in this policy sphere or will it get it in the future? The reason this is so important for our project is that only if the Union is regarded by the two other actors, an