10 A strained partnership? A typology of tensions in the EU-US transatlantic relationship
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Daniel Schade
Abstract
This chapter considers recent developments in the transatlantic relationship between the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA) as an example of how multiple kinds of simultaneous crises can affect an area of EU activity at once. In so doing it disentangles the effects of certain short-term and prominent inflection points, such as the election of Donald Trump as US president, or Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine from more long-term and background elements of strain affecting the overall trajectory of the transatlantic relationship. This focus on different types of crises also allows for the chapter to consider both tensions arising from within the transatlantic relationship, as well as those which are technically exogenous to it, yet which have spillover effects into the state of transatlantic ties. Overall, the chapter concludes that while prominent and sudden developments have a significant impact on the state of transatlantic relations in the short term, it is the more long-term and less prominent gradual divergence of the underlying preferences of both actors which is likely going to have a more lasting and drastic impact overall.
Abstract
This chapter considers recent developments in the transatlantic relationship between the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA) as an example of how multiple kinds of simultaneous crises can affect an area of EU activity at once. In so doing it disentangles the effects of certain short-term and prominent inflection points, such as the election of Donald Trump as US president, or Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine from more long-term and background elements of strain affecting the overall trajectory of the transatlantic relationship. This focus on different types of crises also allows for the chapter to consider both tensions arising from within the transatlantic relationship, as well as those which are technically exogenous to it, yet which have spillover effects into the state of transatlantic ties. Overall, the chapter concludes that while prominent and sudden developments have a significant impact on the state of transatlantic relations in the short term, it is the more long-term and less prominent gradual divergence of the underlying preferences of both actors which is likely going to have a more lasting and drastic impact overall.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- List of authors ix
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Part I: Contextualising the EU and crises
- 1 Introduction: The EU under strain 1
- 2 Polity attacks and policy failures: The EU polycrisis and integration theory 27
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Part II: The legal and democratic fundaments of the EU
- 3 Crisis-driven EU reforms in and beyond treaty limits: Is it time for a treaty change? 51
- 4 What happened to the idea of ‘Ever Closer Union’? Differentiation as a persistent feature of European integration 77
- 5 The difficulty of upholding the rule of law across the European Union: The case of Poland as an illustration of problems the European Union is facing 95
- 6 Representation in polycrisis: Towards a new research agenda for EU citizens 115
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Part III: The EU in a changing world
- 7 After the deluge: Europe, the European Union and crisis in the world arena 133
- 8 EU enlargement in times of crisis: Strategic enlargement, the conditionality principle and the future of the “Ever-Closer Union” 155
- 9 The EU after Brexit: EU-UK relations and the latent crisis of withdrawal 173
- 10 A strained partnership? A typology of tensions in the EU-US transatlantic relationship 191
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Part IV: European policy fields shaped by crisis
- 11 Consolidating the fortress Europe: Conceptualizations of solidarity in the EU Asylum System governance post-2015 211
- 12 EU Health: From pandemic crisis management to a European Health Union? 233
- 13 Leader or laggard? Diversity and minority rights in a union under strain 253
- 14 The slow-burning climate emergency and the European Green Deal: Prospects and pitfalls in the polycrisis era 275
- 15 European economic governance in times of crisis: Solidarity, responsibility, and legitimacy in EU debt mutualisation 293
- Index 319
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Table of Contents v
- List of authors ix
-
Part I: Contextualising the EU and crises
- 1 Introduction: The EU under strain 1
- 2 Polity attacks and policy failures: The EU polycrisis and integration theory 27
-
Part II: The legal and democratic fundaments of the EU
- 3 Crisis-driven EU reforms in and beyond treaty limits: Is it time for a treaty change? 51
- 4 What happened to the idea of ‘Ever Closer Union’? Differentiation as a persistent feature of European integration 77
- 5 The difficulty of upholding the rule of law across the European Union: The case of Poland as an illustration of problems the European Union is facing 95
- 6 Representation in polycrisis: Towards a new research agenda for EU citizens 115
-
Part III: The EU in a changing world
- 7 After the deluge: Europe, the European Union and crisis in the world arena 133
- 8 EU enlargement in times of crisis: Strategic enlargement, the conditionality principle and the future of the “Ever-Closer Union” 155
- 9 The EU after Brexit: EU-UK relations and the latent crisis of withdrawal 173
- 10 A strained partnership? A typology of tensions in the EU-US transatlantic relationship 191
-
Part IV: European policy fields shaped by crisis
- 11 Consolidating the fortress Europe: Conceptualizations of solidarity in the EU Asylum System governance post-2015 211
- 12 EU Health: From pandemic crisis management to a European Health Union? 233
- 13 Leader or laggard? Diversity and minority rights in a union under strain 253
- 14 The slow-burning climate emergency and the European Green Deal: Prospects and pitfalls in the polycrisis era 275
- 15 European economic governance in times of crisis: Solidarity, responsibility, and legitimacy in EU debt mutualisation 293
- Index 319
