While the "first decade and a half of globalisation was largely driven and shaped by the United States and Europe," tomorrow's world will be multipolar, with rising powers posing both opportunities and risks for the transatlantic economy, writes Joseph Quinlan, chief market strategist at Bank of America Capital Management, for the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

"We should seize the moment." That is Gordon Brown's message to the United States of America, delivered in his speech to both houses of Congress today. He is telling Americans that "never before have the benefits of co-operation been so far-reaching," and telling them that they can now work with the most popular American leadership in Europe in living memory. He urges the United States to "pr...

From Stratfor By George Friedman Three major meetings will take place in Europe over the next nine days: a meeting of the G-20, a NATO summit and a meeting of the European Union with U.S. President Barack Obama. The week will define the relationship between the United States and Europe and reveal some intra-European relationships. If not a defining moment, the week will certainly be a critical mom...

The BBC’s Mark Mardell wrote an interesting post on his Euroblog on 9 April 2009 A battle with Eurobabble. During the USA – EU summit president Barack Obama represented the United States, but nobody represented Europe. Instead a number of national prime ministers or presidents addressed each issue. How is the United States supposed to communicate with a cacophony of voices? (An aside: ...

A message of survival from historic Europe to the United States as Americans vote.

Looks like Euroland is sinking deeper into the economic mire than even the United States....   Europe sank even deeper into recession than the United States in the closing months of last year, according to figures published Friday, as finance ministers of leading industrialized nations gathered in one of the worst-affected countries, Italy, for discussions on thecrisis. In the fourth quarter,...

A lot of things, you will agree, have changed since 1983 - even in the world of diplomacy. For one, the EU has moved from a loose federation of states towards a new kind of polity - never a United States of Europe, heaven forbid, but more than just a loose arrangement of member-states. But reading George Walden's comment about Europe's putative diplomatic service in the Times I can'...

The Kosovo debacle is a shinning example of just how much Europe is not really free...There was a great hope for people like me that a greater role for Europe on the international stage after the ratification of the Lisbon treaty would mean Europe drawing the line on international law, especially against the United States. Here, there will not be an argument as to the illegality of “Kosovo i...

Once again I see people blaming the current economic crisis on capitalism and failing to attribute culpability to the real culprit in this ongoing disaster - globalisation. Why is it all down to globalisation? Well - to explain that I first need to explain what capitalism is and isn't. Capitalism is an economic model - not a political ideology - whereas globalisation is an extension of capita...

How has the United States boxed itself into an extremely dangerous corner by becoming increasingly reliant on our historic adversary, the Communist Chinese, for critical resources! As one example, the United States faces the ever-present potential for China to dump the US treasury bonds it already owns on the global financial markets, or to boycott our treasury auctions all together. Either of the...