From Alliance to Coalitions - The Future of Transatlantic Relations by Werner Weidenfeld, John Hamre, Walther Stützle, C. Fred Bergsten, and Caio Koch-Weser (ed... » 

From Alliance to Coalitions - The Future of Transatlantic Relations by Werner Weidenfeld, John Hamre, Walther Stützle, C. Fred Bergsten, and Caio Koch-Weser (eds.) develops a new transatlantic agenda, based on the findings of the Transatlantic Strategy Groups of the Bertelsmann Foundation and the Center for Applied Policy Research (CAP). The authors advocate a strategy for action in response to important questions in the field of security and on economics, finance and trade. Members of the Transatlantic Strategy Groups include Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the European Union; Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman of the International Crisis Group; Bob Zoellick, U.S. Trade Commissioner. The book features contributions by renowned policy makers and practitioners with a background in politics, business, academia and media. The concrete policy recommendations were developed in cooperation with scholars from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic and Internatioonal Studies, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and the London Centre for European Reform. «