EUROPEAN POLITICS AND IRAQ CRISIS: REINSTALLING UNITE A LONG, FINE ROAD

Year 2002, Volume: 2 Issue: 4, 151 - 161, 01.04.2002

Sevilay Kahraman

https://doi.org/10.1501/Avraras_0000000072

Abstract

The aim of this article is to assess the implications of the recent Iraqi crisis for American-European relations, the European Union's evolving Common Foreign and Security Policy/ European Security and Defence Policy and the future prospects for global governance. Accordingly, the first part of the article makes a critical analysis of Robert Kagan's thesis about the growing power and ideological gap accross the two sides of the Atlantic. It argues that European Union's weakness as an international security actor has been mainly due to a lack of ambition and sense of responsibility towards the outside world. After disscussing the implications of Iraqi crisis for an enlarging Union and its foreign and security policy, the article concludes that global stability relies heavily on the establishment of a constructive and cooperative transatlantic partnership

Keywords

Common Foreign and Security Policy, Transatlantic Cooperation, European Security and Defence Policy

AVRUPA BİRLIĞI ve IRAK KRİZİ : BÖLÜNMEDEN YENİDEN BİRLEŞMEYE UZUN, İNCE BİR YOL

Abstract

The aim of this article is to assess the implications of the recent Iraqi crisis for American-European relations, the European Union's evolving Common Foreign and Security Policy/ European Security and Defence Policy and the future prospects for global governance. Accordingly, the first part of the article makes a critical analysis of Robert Kagan's thesis about the growing power and ideological gap accross the two sides of the Atlantic. It argues that European Union's weakness as an international security actor has been mainly due to a lack of ambition and sense of responsibility towards the outside world. After disscussing the implications of Iraqi crisis for an enlarging Union and its foreign and security policy, the article concludes that global stability relies heavily on the establishment of a constructive and cooperative transatlantic partnership.

Keywords

AVRUPA BİRLIĞI, IRAK KRİZİ, YENİDEN BİRLEŞME