미국-유럽 관계의 변화와 지속에 나타나는 양가성

Abstract

Many pundits of the transatlantic relation primarily concur that conflict and cooperation are simultaneously dormant across the United States and Europe. Such a consensus arguably stems from notable likelihood of homogenization in the transatlantic relation despite its significant differences in the historical evolution of modern nation states. Others, however, opt to accentuate an ostentatious rift between a long-time world leader and a latecomer which only rose to its fame recently. This paper is in agreement with manifestation of the apparent rift in the transatlantic relation precisely because two sides have learned to live in disagreement with restructure of a new world order. This study further explores the ambivalence of the transatlantic relation, first by illuminating the change and continuity across the United States and Europe in the evolving world order, followed by an increasingly pessimistic prognosis with regard to China and Russia, especially since the turn of the twenty-first century.