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, and regards itself, as an actor in security policy does the strategic triangle really exists. Consequently, this book has a strong focus upon the development of the actor capability of the Union. In the case of the United States, it examines to what extent the concept of the strategic triangle has significance under each of five grand strategies that serve as alternative visions of the superpower’s role in the world.
Author(s): Jan Hallenberg, Hakan Karlsson
Series: Contemporary Security Studies
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 264
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
SERIES-TITLE......Page 3
TITLE......Page 6
COPYRIGHT......Page 7
CONTENTS......Page 8
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 11
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS......Page 12
1. A NEW STRATEGIC TRIANGLE: Defining changing transatlantic security relations......Page 14
2. THE IMPACT OF ENLARGEMENT ON EU ACTORNESS: Enhanced capacity, weakened cohesiveness......Page 31
3. THE BUILDING OF A MILITARY CAPABILITY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: Some internal and external implications......Page 57
4. POLAND AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC: New members torn between the EU and NATO......Page 76
5. STRATEGIC COERCION: A tool for the EU or for Europe's major powers?......Page 97
6. THE ALIEN AND THE TRADITIONAL: The EU facing a transforming Russia......Page 118
7. THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PUTIN'S POLICY TOWARD UKRAINE AND BELARUS OF NATO AND EU EXPANSION......Page 138
8. THE ‘NEW STRATEGIC TRIANGLE' AND THE US GRAND STRATEGY DEBATE......Page 159
9. THE TIES THAT BIND?: Economic relations among the United States, the EU, and Russia......Page 180
10. THE UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA: A clash of strategic visions......Page 197
11. CONCLUSIONS......Page 218
REFERENCES......Page 229
INDEX......Page 255
