EVOLUTION OF U.S. SECURITY STRATEGY IN THE EUROPEAN REGION

Abstract

Abstract. U. S. relations with Europe belong to the sphere of global policy, which significantly
affects the transformation of the world order, a hierarchy of states in international cooperation,
on political and economic development of regions and subregions, on the overall
stability and international peace. Contradictions between the U.S. and Europe concerned as
various geopolitical interests of its allies, and ideas about methods and ways of solving crisis
situations, as the EU did not share the concept of military threat to the United States and the
practice of force to resolve international crises. In the context of international security and reformatting
of transatlantic cooperation to the EU rose strategic goal to see the world outside the
EU, to formulate a global strategic objectives. In particular, the geopolitical approach the U.S.
is insisting appropriateness, necessity and possibility of independent decision-making of the EU
on issues concerning the common interests of the transatlantic community.
In the US-European relations of the beginning of the XXI century there is a tendency of mutual
pragmatism. To change the status of «traditional allies» to the status of «essential partners
» Europeans clearly advisable to define their interests. If the development of equal and thus
competitive transatlantic relations between the U.S. learned to recognize, the initiative of the European
Union’s security policy is the United States and certain doubts primarily considered as
a potential threat, as competition with NANO, and not as the possibility of future redistribution
of responsibilities for security. Europeans, by contrast, believe that the European Security and
Defence Policy is not a danger for NATO, and that you need at least to gain the ability to act in
terms of self-defense policy, if they deem it necessary.
Key words: security strategy, Barack Obama, USA, Europe, US-European relations, transatlantic
cooperation.