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by Nicole Schley,
Senior Research Fellow, Center for Applied Policy Research, Munich.
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22nd April 2003
Some consequences for EU-U.S. relations of the war in Iraq
The transatlantic crisis is reality. And it has deepened with the differences of views over the question of attacking Iraq and changing the regime there. In Europe Iraq was for a long time not seen as the main aggressor and the main threat to the western world. And after all, the United States has failed to link Saddam Hussein to the attacks of September 11, 2001... Read the article
6th March 2003
The intra EU consequences of the Iraqi crisis: The EU is still united
Hegemony generates opposition. And American hegemonial behaviour vis-à-vis Iraq generates Europe's opposition. In all Europe? No, unfortunately not. Europeans are divided over the Iraq question and more general over the features of their common foreign security and defense policy. Is this divide a permanent one? Where is the uniting factor working towards a common position?.. Read the article
3rd February 2003
The New Zeal: U.S. Iraq Policy and European Objections
The devastating terrorist attacks of September 11 have redefined U.S. foreign policy and made the war on terrorism a top priority. The crushing of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the hunt for al-Qaida terrorists around the globe were widely perceived as legitimate acts of self-defense. Yet, in the last months the possibility of U.S. military action against Iraq came to dominate the transatlantic if not the global agenda. This new emphasis put on Iraq combined with the serious questions it raised about international legality and the stability of the Middle East region confounded and alarmed many observers, especially among some of the European Union partner states. The fact that the Bush administration has at various points referred to different motivations for its aggressive policy against Iraq contributed to their doubts. At the risk of considerable over-simplification three clusters of arguments made by U.S. officials may be discerned, none of which managed to convince European skeptics... Read the article
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