How Europe can be heard in Washington

Commentary feature. We are now entering a “post-American world”. The Cold War is fading into history, and globalisation is increasingly redistributing power to the South and the East. The United States has understood this, and is working to replace its briefly held global dominance with a network of partnerships that will ensure that it remains the “indispensable nation”. Where does this leave the transatlantic relationship? Is its importance inevitably set to decline? If so, does this matter? And how should Europeans respond?

EurActiv, 26.11.09: EU warned about transatlantic 'illusions' http://www.euractiv.com/global-europe/eu-warned-transatlantic-illusion-news-223053

Brookings Institution: Towards a Post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-U.S. Relations, November 2009 http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2009/1102_europe_shapiro.aspx

ECFR: Towards a post-American Europe: A Power Audit of EU-US Relations, November 2009 http://www.ecfr.eu/publications/summary/towards_a_post_american_europe_a_power_audit_of_eu_us_relations

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