The Kosovo war has concentrated new attention on the transatlantic relationship and its principal institution, NATO. Europeans argue over the future of their Union, suggesting a struggle over control of Europe's future. The threat of a transatlantic trade war shows the struggle overflowing to affect the Atlantic relationship that has secured Europe's peace for fifty years. Distinguished experts consider the arguments over NATO and the EU in order to assess the state of the vital Atlantic relationship and its future.

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DOUGLAS EDEN is founder and head of the Centre for Study of International Affairs (Europe and America) at Middlesex University and organizer of the annual Trent Park conferences on the future of the Atlantic Community. A Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom, he has written, lectured and advised political figures, governments and major media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic. Among his publications are The Future of the Atlantic Community and Political Change in Europe.

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Preface List of Contributors NATO and the Atlantic Relationship; D.Eden NATO's Enlargement: Limited, Controversial, Inevitable; W.Mader The Future of NATO and the Transatlantic Alliance in the Twenty-first Century; G.L.Williams The American Policy Debate on NATO Enlargement; W.Schneider The Strategic Environment: The Next Twenty Years' Crisis?; A.L.Williams Development of the Atlantic Relationship; P.J.Priestly The Politics of Trade in an Ever-Closer Community; D.E.Newquist Trade Developments in the Western Hemisphere: Implications for Transatlantic Relations; J.A.McKinney 'Euroland' vs 'Big Europe': EMU, Transatlantic Relations and the Eastern Enlargements of NATO and the European Union; M.J.Dedman The Transatlantic Implications of European Monetary Union; M.Holmes Index