Transatlantic Economic Relatio
“The United States and the European Union (EU) are on the brink of a major trade and economic conflict.” (C. Fred Bergsten)Transatlantic relations is one of the issues which attracted so much intellectual attention in international relations literature. From the very beginning it developed continuously as well as time to time it suffered from severe disputes -whether sometimes being technical. The end of the Cold War also ended the supremacy of security or more accurately “hard” security issues concerning transatlantic relations. In this respect, as the foremost priority, economic based conflicts began to occupy the agenda of the Atlantic community. This was further exacerbated by the European Union’s everlasting incentives on the formation of a Economic and Monetary Union. Indeed, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the establishment of EMU was seen as the most important event in transatlantic politcs. Apart from this evolving monetary rivalry, as a significant part of the relationship, “trade wars” became a frequent reality. Even though both Europeans and Americans tried to manage the challenges of a new era by “Transatlantic Declaration” of 1990 and the New Transatlanti
McNamara, K. R. and Meunier, S., “Between national sovereignty and international power: what external voice for the euro?” in International Affairs, Vol. 78, no. 4, October 2002.
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