This volume offers the first comprehensive statement by a contingent of leading RAND thinkers on the contours of a redefined Atlantic partnership.Individual essays develop and apply this idea in the areas of free trade; NATO reform; joint 'Atlantic' strategies toward the former Soviet Union and the greater Middle East; and other shifts in American and European policies toward one another and the world at large. The work will interest policy and research audiences in world affairs, global business readers, and others engaged in or thinking about America's international role and relations.

Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction: an Atlantic partnership for the new era David C. Gompert; 2. Double enlargement: redefining the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War Ronald D. Asmus; 3. An economic agenda for the new era Gregory Treverton; 4. A new partnership: new Nato structures James A. Thomson; 5. Europe as partner John Van Oudenaren; 6. America as partner David C. Gompert; 7. Security challenges on Europe's Eastern periphery F. Stephen Larrabee; 8. Challenges in the Greater Middle East Zalmay Khalilzad; 9. A European comment John Roper; 10. Conclusion: institutions and policies David C. Gompert and F. Stephen Larrabee; Bibliography.