The damage that has been done to the transatlantic alliance will not be repaired through grand architectural redesigns or radical new agendas. Instead, the transatlantic partners need to restore their consensus and cooperation on key security challenges with a limited agenda that reflects the essential conservatism of the transatlantic partnership during the Cold War and the 1990s. There will inevitably be big challenges, such as the rise of China, where transatlantic disparities in strategic means and commitments preclude any common alliance undertaking. Yet such limits are nothing new. The absence of a common transatlantic commitment to counter-insurgency in Iraq may cause resentments, but so too did the lack of a common commitment to counter-insurgency in Vietnam. This Adelphi Paper suggests ten propositions for future transatlantic consensus – that is to say, ten security challenges for which the allies should be able to agree on common strategies. These run the gamut from an effective strategy to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability to transatlantic leadership for international cooperation against global warming. If pursued with seriousness and a reasonable degree of transatlantic unity, these propositions could constitute the foundations of an effective partnership. They are, in the authors’ view, the basis for a consensus on the most pressing security challenges of the twenty-first century. The time is right for this kind of serious rededication to alliance purposes. There has already been some effort to repair the damage; moreover, new leaders are in place or coming to the countries that were major protagonists of the transatlantic crisis: Germany, France, Britain and, in 2009, the United States. It is possible that these four new leaders will be better able to put the disputes of the recent past behind them. This extended essay is a guide to the possibilities, and also the limits, of a new start.

Repairing the Damage (Adelphi series)

History

Allin, Dana H.

Andréani, Gilles

Samore, Gary

Errera, Philippe

Military

Routledge

The Trilateral Commission examined the proliferation of nuclear weapons and their increasing threat in its 2006 Task Force Report  Nuclear Proliferation: Risk and Responsibility and its 2008 report Engaging Iran and Building Peace in the Persian Gulf Region. The subject is as important and controversial today as when those reports were issued and merits another look.In this report, experts in the fields of nuclear weapons and international security provide an update on what Henry Kissinger has called "the tension between preemptive and preventive uses of force" and the possibility of eventual disarmament and nonproliferation.Contents  1. Setting the Discussion on Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation2. Thinking about Zero3. The Return of Elimination4. Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation: A Korean Perspective5. Nuclear Weapons in the Modern World6. Rethinking Nuclear Abolition7. Will We Ever Have a World Free of Nuclear Weapons? Disarmament versus Abolishment8. Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation: Challenges Ahead

Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation (Triangle Papers/Task Force Reports)

Politics & Social Sciences

Brown, Harold

ALLISON, Graham T.

Nishihara, Masashi

Sung-han, Kim

Karaganov, Sergei

Levite, Ariel E.

Sikri, Rajiy

Politics & Government

The Trilateral Commission

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