US-European relations within NATO after the end of the Cold War

Abstract

The founding of NATO came as a reflection of the common will and interests of the United States and the European countries after the end of World War II, Indeed, NATO has managed to maintain European stability throughout the Cold War, as well as to protect it from the "Communist threat" of the threat used by the United States throughout the Cold War, to justify its military presence on European territory, which allowed it to dominate, and to control the European decision, but after the end of the Cold War and the demise of the Communist threat, a number of American-European disagreements surfaced on the future of NATO, a number of American-European disagreements surfaced on the future of NATO, In addition to disagreement over NATO expansion and even on the direction of expansion, In addition to the American demand for European countries to increase their contribution to the burden and costs of the alliance, as well as European projects to find a unified European military identity away from American hegemony.