Friendly Fire: The Near Death of the Transatlantic Alliance by Elizabeth Pond

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Relations between the U.S. and Europe have declined in recent years, and today they are worse than at any time since the 1960s. In Friendly Fire, a veteran reporter known for her shrewd observations of political behavior in Europe examines the widening gulf and worsening acrimony between the U.S. and its traditional allies on the European continent.

Elizabeth Pond examines a number of disputes—chronic trade quarrels, the International Criminal Court, the Kyoto Protocol, Israeli-Palestinian violence, and Iraq—and identifies the ways in which they reinforce and exacerbate one another. European governments have accepted a rhetorical responsibility for global (and not just European) security, but the dearth of defense funding in Europe, disagreements over tactics, and the bad American temper toward the Europeans have added to the estrangement.

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Elizabeth Pond is a journalist based in Germany. Currently a correspondent for the Washington Quarterly, she was a longtime European correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She is the author of The Rebirth of Europe (Brookings, 2001) and coauthor of The German Question and Other German Questions (Macmillan/St.Martins, 1996).

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