NUMERO 25

11 Settembre. Dieci anni dopo Ventunesimo Secolo Rivista di studi sulle transizioni Anno X - Numero 25 - Giugno  2011 Direttori: Victor Zaslavsky † Gaetano Quagliariello

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Abstract

The aim of the article is to offer an analysis on how September 11th and the linked international events have been perceived in Europe and have affected Euro-American relations. These relations went through different phases. After a first period, marked by an European sympathetic feeling towards the US, Bush’s decision to launch a military campaign against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was opposed by many European governments and originated one of the most difficult phases in transatlantic relations.
This opposition not only led to a resilient hostility against American foreign policy within European public opinions, but also had significant consequences on European Union and on the political and intellectual debate about EU’s future. From 2004 to 2008 Europe and the Us seemed to look for a partial rapprochement, due to many internal and international factors. 2008 financial crisis, Obama’s victory and Bin Laden’s death put September 11th to the background: Europe and the US are definitively shelving it.