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This chapter focuses on the ways in which the political economy of transatlantic relations both reflects and affects the development of the transatlantic security ‘core’ constituted by NATO. In a sense, the argument here takes the emphasis away from NATO itself and the provision of ‘hard security’ through the Alliance and through concrete military measures. In place of such concerns, I argue that a rounded analysis of the transatlantic ‘security community’ requires explicit attention to the political economy of competition and integration, including both the diplomacy of economic relations within NATO and the generation of ‘economic security’.
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The argument in this section is a revised and developed version of parts of an earlier piece by the same author: M. Smith, ‘European Integration and American Power: Reflex, Resistance and Reconfiguration’, in D. Slater and P. Taylor (eds.): The American Century: Consensus and Coercion in the Projection of American Power (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), pp. 136–48.
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Smith, M.H. (2001). The Political Economy of Transatlantic Relations: Forces of History and the Shadow of the Future. In: Schmidt, G. (eds) A History of NATO — The First Fifty Years. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-65576-2_19
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