The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Riccardo Alcaro (Editor), John Peterson (Editor), Ettore Greco (Editor)
$137.99
Publication Date: July 28th, 2016
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9781137574855
Pages:
296
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Description

This book assesses the state of transatlantic relations in an era of emerging powers and growing interconnectedness, and discusses the limits and potential of transatlantic leadership in creating effective governance structures. The authors first resort to theory and history to understand the transatlantic relationship. They then consider the domestic and systemic factors that might set the relationship between the United States and Europe on a different path. Finally, the authors locate the potential for transatlantic leadership in the context of the global power shift. The world of the 21st century displays different power configurations in different policy domains. This changing structure of power complicates the exercise of leadership. Leadership requires not only greater power and authority, but also persuasion, bargaining and moral suasion, all necessary strategies to build coalitions and manage conflicts between great powers.

About the Author

Riccardo Alcaro is Senior Fellow at the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy. He was the Coordinator of the EU 7th Framework Programme-funded Transworld project on transatlantic relations and global governance. He is a fellow of the EU-wide programme European Foreign and Security Policy Studies (EFSPS). John Peterson is Professor of International Politics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. His recent works include The European Union: How Does it Work? (co-edited with D. Kenealy and R. Corbett, 2015); Parochial Global Europe: 21st Century Trade Politics (co-authored with A. Young, 2014; and Multilateralism in the 21st Century (co-edited with C. Bouchard and N. Tocci, 2014). Ettore Greco is Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy, and head of its transatlantic program. He is the author of a number of publications on the EU's institutions and foreign policy, transatlantic relations and the Balkans. He has been a free-lance journalist since 1988.

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