Stručni rad
Transatlantic Relations
Lea Poljančić
Sažetak
After the Second World war, the USA showed big interest in the European military and political affairs. Strong anti-communist and anti-Soviet campaign had started in the USA and in Western Europe, which resulted in the creation of the NATO, in April 1949.
Nowadays, the relations between the USA and islamic world as well as the fi ght against global terrorism represent crucial foreign affairs concerns of the USA. The USA tries to involve its European allies into those issues as much as possible. The USA has been stimulating the European integration since the end of the Second World war and the beginning of the Cold war. The European integration is not an obstacle to the USA as long as it does not endanger the American economic and military position of a superpower. An overall concept of transatlantic relations does not exist. Both EU and USA are facing great challenges and changes on both sides of the Ocean.
After the fall of the Iron curtain, the USA and the EU are strongly oriented towards each other, especially regarding the intense economic cooperation. It is interesting that the founding fathers of the European integration were inspired by the American federational
model after the Second World war. The state of international relations was always rated by the quality of relations between the USA and the EU. Now they have many common tasks on the international scene, such as managing the peace process in the Middle
East and completing the work in the Balkans.
Ključne riječi
Marshall’s plan; Cold war; Europe as the object of the international relations; European economical unism; from bipolarity to unipolarity
Hrčak ID:
8561
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Datum izdavanja:
19.12.2006.
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