The Obama Moment. European and American Perspectives

Contents
Introduction – Responding to the Obama moment: the EU and the US
in a multipolar world 11
Álvaro de Vasconcelos
The Obama-EU agenda 14
Priority areas for Euro-American joint action 16
Revisiting the transatlantic paradigm 21
Pa r t o n e – Ch a n g e in t h e US a n d t r a n S a t l a n t i C r e l a t i o n S 25
1. EU-US transatlantic relations: the Obama moment 27
John Bruton
Introduction 27
Obama’s new agenda 28
Obama versus Bush: continuity as well as change 30
Constraints in the conduct of US foreign policy 32
Constraints facing Europe as a foreign policy actor 34
Conclusion 36
2. The Obama administration and Europe 39
Daniel Hamilton and Nikolas Foster
Introduction 39
A new paradigm for the transatlantic partnership 40
Seven challenges 42
Conclusion 56
Par t tw o – wha t do we do? 59
Global questions 61
3. The coming clash? Europe and US multilateralism under Obama 63
Bruce Jones
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