Hopkinson William. The Atlantic Crisis: Britain, Europe, and Parting from the United States

Naval War College Press, 2005. - 108 p. - (Newport Papers).It would in any case have been desirable to review the Transatlantic Naval relationship (from 1940) more than a decade after the end of the Cold War, taking account of the interlinked processes of globalization and a changing security agenda. The events of 11 September 2001 and the publication of the U.S. national security strategy in September 2002 reinforced the need. A review was made imperative by the fissures opened up within Western alliance and security structures, as well as globally, by the action of the United States and United Kingdom against Iraq, and arguably the requirement was further reinforced by the re-election of President George W. Bush in November 2004. Whatever the longer- term outcome of that re-election and of Iraq, transatlantic relations have changed, as have intra-European ones. It is time, especially for Britain, to think hard about what has happened and what the next steps should be.