John Baylis is Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Department of American Studies, University of Wales, Swansea. His research interests include Anglo-American Relations, Nuclear History and Arms Control. He is the author of over 20 books including Anglo-American Defence Relations (1984) and Anglo-American Relations since 1939: The Enduring Alliance (1994).Jon Roper is Professor of American Studies at Swansea University. His research interests include American political ideas, the Presidency and the impact of war on American politics, culture and society. He has published Democracy and its Critics (1989), The American Presidents (2000) and The Contours of American Politics (2002).

• Introduction and Overview 1. 'The City Upon a Hill Forever Under Siege': America from a European Perspective 2. Learning from America’s Past: Towards a United States of Europe? 3. Steering the 'great unwieldy barge' in peace and war 4. French Perspectives of the UK and the USA 5. Beyond NATO: the idea of a European Defence Force 6. New and old Europe in America’s post-Iraq Global Strategy 7. Global Intelligence in the War on Terror 8. Transatlantic Relations in a Global Economy 9. Political Economy: Divergence and Convergence between the United States and Europe Conclusion