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The transatlantic relationship between Europe and North America is one of the densest and most stable areas of global cooperation. The conventional view among most scholars and policymakers rests on two premises. Closer transatlantic cooperation is broadly desirable, because North America and Europe share an overwhelming number of convergent interests, policy objectives, values, institutions, and beliefs. Yet, transatlantic relations is undermined by narrow sectarian interests and political extremism at home and abroad. The result is generally a wish list of possible policy projects. This panel is linked to a special issue which aims to offer a more theoretically-informed and empirically-nuanced analysis of transatlantic relations. It asks: Where do European and US preferences diverge or converge on different issues areas? What is the level and scope of transatlantic policy convergence and coordination across different policy areas—and to what extent is cooperation observable rather than rhetorical? How are gains and losses of transatlantic cooperation distributed, domestically, and internationally? To what extent and in what sense might these results be viewed as efficient, given existing constraints? And not least, how can theories of cooperation explain what we do and do not observe? The goal is advance the study of transatlantic politics in three ways, each rare in current research: to describe and explain variation in transatlantic cooperation across time, issues and countries; to apply theories of international cooperation to explain that variation; and to thereby move beyond the widely held assumption that wider and deeper transatlantic cooperation is necessarily possible and desirable.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| EU’s Ontological Security, Trade Wars, and Resource Rivalry: A Test of Confidence in the European Project | View Paper Details |
| The Transformation of Transatlantic Cooperation: From Coordination to Geopolitical Competition in Global Infrastructure Financing | View Paper Details |
| Follow the Money: Burden-Sharing in Transatlantic Relations | View Paper Details |
| The Transatlantic Partnership Rewritten : How Trump’s Return has Disrupted the EU’s Identity Foundations | View Paper Details |
| European responses to Trump’s trade policy: preference formation and multi-level policy making | View Paper Details |