Original scientific paper

America and Europe: Differences and Divisions

Radovan Vukadinović ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Dilemmas raised concerning the future development of relations between America and Europe started to gain shape when the Bush Administration took certain steps (such as Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, establishment of International Criminal Court) and they reaching the peak when America announced the need to punish the regime in Iraq. Even at this point it can be stated that it implies the greatest crisis of Euro-Atlantism since the time when de Gaulle decided to withdraw from NATO. It is obvious that in this crisis on the one side there are the main European actors of European integration and on the other there are the USA and European countries that support them lead by Great Britain. Even though it is impossible to tall about dissolution of the Euro-Atlantic system, it is by all means certain that we are facing a new period of relations and that in the time of great changes within the Alliance and out of it, the most developed countries in the world will have to show their capabilities and skills in improving their relations.

Keywords

euroatlantic relations; security; NATO; International Criminal Court; Kyoto Protocol; Iraq

Hrčak ID:

289938

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/289938

Publication date:

15.4.2003.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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