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The Third Option chronicles the last decade's complex transatlantic and intra-european military diplomacy, as the United States and Europe wrestled over the future strategic division of labor between NATO and the European Union. Cogan's past scholarship on French-American relations suffuses the work with a subtle understanding of the historical roots of current issues. The book suggests that there are inevitable contradictions between an improvement in the EU's military capacity and the continuation of a NATO dominated politically and militarily by the United States. For those who wish to manage, or simply to understand, the inevitable transatlantic tensions of the coming years, this book will prove an essential resource. -Barry R. Posen Professor of Political Science Security Studies Program, MIT

Charles G. Cogan has provided a comprehensive analysis of the efforts to create a European defense entity capable of acting independently of the United States. -Parameters The Third Option does a fine job covering the important events of the 1990s. -www.apsanet.org The best account so far of the European Union's push for an autonomous defense capability. -Foreign Affairs ?The best account so far of the European Union's push for an autonomous defense capability.?-Foreign Affairs ?The Third Option does a fine job covering the important events of the 1990s.?-www.apsanet.org ?Charles G. Cogan has provided a comprehensive analysis of the efforts to create a European defense entity capable of acting independently of the United States.?-Parameters The Third Option is a meticulous, comprehensive, clearly and elegantly written account and analysis of the efforts, led by France, in the 1990s to create a European defense entity capable of acting independently of the United States. Dr. Cogan cogently highlights the problems of NATO and the European Union becoming two separate and potentially competing defense organizations in Europe. His study is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand European defense issues and transatlantic security relations. -Samuel P. Huntington Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor Harvard University The Third Option chronicles the last decade's complex transatlantic and intra-european military diplomacy, as the United States and Europe wrestled over the future strategic division of labor between NATO and the European Union. Cogan's past scholarship on French-American relations suffuses the work with a subtle understanding of the historical roots of current issues. The book suggests that there are inevitable contradictions between an improvement in the EU's military capacity and the continuation of a NATO dominated politically and militarily by the United States. For those who wish to manage, or simply to understand, the inevitable transatlantic tensions of the coming years, this book will prove an essential resource. -Barry R. Posen Professor of Political Science Security Studies Program, MIT

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CHARLES G. COGAN is a Senior Research Associate at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Dr. Cogan is the author of Forced to Choose: France, the Atlantic Alliance, and NATO—Then and Now, and Oldest Allies, Guarded Friends: The United States and France Since 1940, both published by Praeger.

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