Allies Divided : Transatlantic Policies for the Greater Middle East

The shifting global security and defence landscape of the post-Cold War era has led the West to re-examine regional priorities and existing international institutions.

Many scholars have written on how best to co-ordinate policy on the security of Central Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union, and on reforming NATO and the OSCE.

Very few scholars, however, have prescribed policy for transatlantic co-operation toward threats that transcend Europe and NATO, especially in the Middle East.

Many transatlantic security concerns in the coming decades will originate not in Europe, but in the Greater Middle East, which encompasses the area from the Maghreb to the Caspian basin.

The volume juxtaposes essays from US and European scholars on selected areas and issues: the Arab-Israeli peace process, the Persian Gulf, Turkey and the Caspian Basin, Islamic extremism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and military force projection.

Each author considers American and European strategies toward a particular issue and makes suggestions for future policy collaboration between the countries on both sides of the Atlantic.