Authors:David C. Gompert, Francois Godement, Evan S. Mede
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: policies, consequences, transatlantic, relations, strategic, chinese, franco, american, analysis, emerging, china
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833036769
ISBN-13: 9780833036766

This volume is the product of a conference, jointly sponsored by the RAND Corporation and Centre Asie Ifri and summarizes the discussions at the conference, which was held in Paris in June 2003. The chapters in the report were written by researchers from both organizations and subsequently edited to produce a mutually acceptable consensus document. The resulting volume offers U.S. and French views of the evolution of Chinese national security policy and military capabilities in the next two decades. Its aim is to examine the issues through a U.S.-French prism and to facilitate analysis of how

Authors:John E. Peters, Stuart E. Johnson, Nora Bensahel,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: implications, transatlantic, cooperation, force, allied, contributions, operation, european
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: 0833030388
ISBN-13: 9780833030382

Operation Allied Force, the 1999 NATO air campaign that sought to prevent a wider humanitarian disaster in Kosovo, represents the triumph of air power to some observers and highlights air power’s limitations for others. While representing a successful cooperative allied military action for NATO, it also suggests limits to U.S.-European military cooperation. This report, a dispassionate assessment of Operation Allied Force, provides perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic as well as political and military implications. The campaign highlighted the growing gap between U.S. military