Examines the causes and implications of the crisis in transatlantic relations that came to a head with the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Analyzes the alliance’s foundation and development in World War II and the Cold War and its vicissitudes in the Balkans conflicts, the early George W. Bush administration and the Iraq war itself. The second half explores broader transatlantic themes: the divergent attitudes towards the legitimacy and effectiveness of military force and the cluster of values issues: religiosity vs. secularism, American "sovereigntism" vs. European devotion to legal order and international governance and market capitalism vs. social welfarism, as well as the different responses to Islam. (Cross listed European Studies/American Foreign Policy/Russian and Eurasian Studies)