Transatlantic Relations: Challenge and Resilience, edited by Donald Abelson and Stephen Brooks (Routledge, 2022)
Featuring chapters by former MATA Coordinator Simon Schunz and MATA Visiting Professor Emiliano Alessandri, this book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has remained resilient despite persistent differences in the preferences, approaches, and policies of key member states.
It covers topics ranging from the history of transatlantic relations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization and security issues, trade, human rights, and the cultural sinews of the relationship, to the impacts of COVID-19, climate change, think tanks, the rise of populism, public opinion, and the triangular relationship between the United States (US), Europe, and China. The book also conceptualizes resilience as a quality arising from myriad forms of interdependence. This interdependence helps shed light on the Atlantic partnership’s capacity to withstand serious disagreements, such as those that occurred during the Reagan, George W. Bush, and Trump presidencies.
With a principal focus on the US and Europe, the contributors to the volume also employ Canadian case studies to provide a unique and useful corrective. This book will interest all intermediate and senior undergraduate as well as graduate courses on relations between the US and Europe, American foreign policy, and European Union foreign policy. A specialist readership that includes academic and think tank researchers, policy practitioners, and opinion leaders will also benefit from this timely volume.
Other recently published work by MATA faculty and academic staff:
Michele Chang, Raquel Ugarte Diez. "Still the Dealmaker? The Council Presidency in EMU." In EU Council Presidencies in Times of Crises, edited by Ramona Coman and Vivien Sierens. London: Palgrave, 2024
Michele Chang. Show Me the Money: Financing Europe’s Strategic, Green and Digital Ambitions through Capital Markets Union." European Council Experts’ Debrief: The Future of EU Financing May 2024
Michele Chang, David Howarth and Laura Pierret. "From Menace to Mundane: Moral Hazard and the Politics of the European Central Bank's Government Bond Purchases." JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies.
Chang, Michele. "Government Bond Buying by the European Central Bank: Leadership Versus Accountability." In The Cambridge Handbook of European Monetary, Economic and Financial Integration, edited by Dariusz Adamski, Fabian Amtenbrink and Jakob de Haan. Cambridge Law Handbooks, 175-96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Chang, Michele. "Reindustrialising Europe: Synergies of the Single Market." Elcano Royal Institute ARI 66/2023, no. 17 July (2023)
Chang, Michele. "Legtimizing Central Bank Independence under the Post-Maastricht Framework." Chap. 18 In The Political Economy of Europe’s Future and Identity: Integration in Crisis Mode, edited by Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres, 210-18. Florence and Lisbon: European University Institute and UCP Press, 2023.
Chang, Michele. "Here We Go Again: Restoring European Economic Competitiveness through Capital Markets Union." European Council Experts' Debrief sixth issue, no. March (2023): 9-10. http://www.tepsa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/EUCO-Debrief-March-23_FINAL-1.pdf.
Chang, Michele. "Chapter 11: Economic Governance." In Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction, edited by Erik Jones and Masha Hedberg. Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Chang, Michele. "Economic Governance ". In Europe Today, edited by Erik Jones and Masha Hedberg. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
Chang, Michele. "Government Bond-Buying by the European Central Bank: Leadership Versus Accountability." In The Cambridge Handbook of European Monetary, Economic and Financial Integration, edited by Dariusz Adamski, Fabian Amtenbrink and Jakob De Haan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Benedetta Berti, “NATO 2030: A look at the key priorities for the Vilnius summit”, EPC Roundup, 22 June 2023.
Borges de Castro, Ricardo, Mihai Sebastian Chihaia, Simon Dekeyrel, Ivano di Carlo, Zeynep Güner, Philipp Lausberg, Berta López Domènech, Iana Maisuradze, Rita Mendoça Barbosa Amorim Lobo, Marta Mucznik, Amanda Paul, Georg Riekeles, Maxime Sierro, and Svitlana Taran in Ricardo Borges de Castro, editor, ““Europe in the world in 2023: Learning the language of power?” Outlook Paper, Brussels: European Policy Centre, February 2023.
Iana Maisuradze, “NATO must keep its word and guide Georgia towards membership”, EPC Roundup, 22 June 2023.
Chang, Michele, Gabriel Glöckler , and Laura Pierret. 2023. "Fighting Fires from Crisis to Crisis: The Evolution of Central Banking in Europe." In The EU Political System after the 2019 European Elections, edited by Olivier Costa and Steven Van Hecke. London: Palgrave.
Paul, Amanda and Iana Maisuradze. “Georgia must get its act together to become an EU candidate country” European Policy Centre, March 2023.
On May 8-10, 2025, the Director of our Transatlantic Affairs Programme, Professor Michele CHANG, and academic assistants Paula ÁLVAREZ VIDAL, Luis BARTILOTTI MATOS, Nina Esther GUIBÈRE, Marie...