Transatlantic Relations Web Links
Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily
in English providing information on relations between the United States
and Europe. For related Web links, see Regional
Resources: Europe, which includes links for Bosnia, Kosovo,
Montenegro, Macedonia, Southeastern Europe and Supporting Democracy
in Yugoslavia, and NATO
at FIFTY: Web Links on the 50th anniversary of NATO.
These links complement three Institute Special Reports:
- Transatlantic Relations in the Aftermath of Kosovo
- Defining the Path to a Peaceful, Undivided, and Democratic Europe
- Europe in the 21st Century: A Strategy for Achieving Stable Peace
Government Agencies and Research Centers
Atlantic Council of the United States
British American Security Information Council
United States
- DefenseLink: U. S. Department
of Defense
The web site contains defense news and information concerning the
U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Armed Forces, with a site
map and search capability. The news
section contains news articles, press releases, photos, transcripts
of briefings, a news archive and speeches, including a speech
by Secretary of Defense William Cohen on European Security and Defense
Identity (ESDI) at the 36th Munich Conference on Security Policy,
Feb. 5, 2000. Also lists links
to several Department of Defense web sites.
- Developing
a New, Comprehensive Relationship With Europe: U.S. Department of
State
This web page is part of the archived Department of State web site,
with remarks, briefings, fact sheets and press statements on the
U.S.-Europe relationship, including links to related web sites and
archived material from 1996-1999.
- U. S. Mission to the
EU
The web site has current news, search capability, links to key
U.S.-EU documents such as transatlantic dialogues on business,
consumers and the environment, an archive of texts on issues grouped
by subject, including ESDI--European
Defense Issues.
- U. S. Mission to NATO
The web site has several documents, fact sheets, policy statements,
biographies, speeches, concerning NATO and U.S. policy issues, with
links to other U.S. government web sites. Includes speeches by Ambassador
Alexander Vershbow, the U.S. Permanent Representative on the North
Atlantic Council on "ESDI:
Berlin, St. Malo and Beyond - Remarks to the Western European
Union Institute for Security Studies," Paris, January 28, 1999 and
"European Security
Post-Kosovo" , March 23, 2000.
- U. S. Mission to the
OSCE
The web site links to related U.S. government web sites, reports
and statements
by U. S. officials to the OSCE.
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International Organizations
European Union (EU)
- Council of
the European Union: Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
Part of the web site for the Council
of the European Union, this page contains links to basic
concepts of CFSP, legislation
in force, common strategies, annual reports, a CFSP
data base, and information (including his speeches and statements)
on Javier
Solana , the Secretary-General and High Representative for CFSP.
Also links to a web page for a monitoring
mission of the European Community in the former Yugoslavia (ECMM).
- The
EU & South-Eastern Europe: The Stabilisation and Association
Process
The European Commission's comprehensive approach to southeastern
Europe and Kosovo, with links to documents and speeches, council
meetings and conclusions, and related links.
- Europa, the European Union's
server
Europa contains substantive material on the European Union, its
institutions and policies, official documents, publications, news
and other information resources.
- The European Union in the
U.S.
The web site of the Delegation of the European Commission to the
United States includes a profile of the EU, a guide to the EU for
Americans, news, publications, information resources, a subject
guide to the EU web sites, policies and legislation and a section
on the EU-US
partnership . The latter includes a statement by Elmar Brok,
chairman of the European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy on "European
Security and Defence Identity after the EU Summit in Cologne and
the Transatlantic Link " before the U.S. House Committee on
International Relations, November 10, 1999.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- NATO Homepage
Homepage of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with links to members and officials, texts, speeches, topics, publications, operations and other related sites. Includes a document describing the founding of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, its action plan for 1998-2000 and a list of EAPC member states, with links to each country's official institutions (if online).
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Partnership for Peace (PFP)
- Partnership for Peace (PFP)
NATO web page describing the Partnership for Peace organization, its member states, links to documents concerning each country on the NATO web site and links to NATO documents concerning the Partnership for Peace, including the Framework Document . Elsewhere on the NATO site is a list of senior government officials from PFP member countries.
World Bank
- Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe
A joint web site of the European Commission and the World Bank created "as part of the international community's response to the Kosovo crisis," it contains a calendar of events/conferences, news releases, speeches and statements , documents issued by the EU, UN, IMF and IMF/WB, including the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe dated June 10, 1999, links to related sites, with other sections of the web site under construction. The announcement of the launching of the joint web site describes the scope and types of information that will be covered, including assessment of the economic impacts and costs of the Kosovo crisis, reconstruction needs, and register of donor assistance.
Selected Documents
- Amsterdam
Treaty
Text and analysis of the Amsterdam Treaty of the European Union,
which came into force in May 1999. This web page, from Europa, the
EU's web server, lists information guides, press releases, and full
text in html and PDF files (requires Adobe®
Acrobat® Reader to view).
- Charter
for European Security
Text of the document signed by OSCE country representatives at the
OSCE Summit in Istanbul, November 19, 1999 in which issues of cooperative
security, rapid expert assistance and peacekeeping, among others,
are addressed.
- Charter
of Paris for a New Europe
Text of a document from a meeting of the Heads of State or Government
of the participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation
in Europe (CSCE), in Paris, November 19-21, 1990.
- Declaration
on European Defence
Joint declaration agreed to by the heads of state of the governments
of France and the United Kingdom on European defence at a British-French
summit in St. Malo, France on December 4, 1998. From the web site
of the Foreign and Commonwealth office of the United Kingdom.
- Defense
Capabilities Initiative
Text of the Initiative launched by the NATO Heads of State and Government
participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Washington
D.C. on April 25, 1999.
- A Risk Strategy
for NATO: Document on European Security and Defense Identity (EDSI)
Chapter 6 of a 1999 research report from the British American Security
Information Council (BASIC), analyzing and describing the relationship
between NATO and ESDI.
- Stability
Pact for South Eastern Europe
Full text of the document adopted by numerous foreign ministers
and representatives of regional organizations meeting in Cologne
on June 10, 1999 under the aegis of the European Union in response
to the Kosovo crisis.
Updated: May 15, 2002
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