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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 12/02
Did German-US relations change from pre-Bush and Bush to post-9/11-Bush? (A Revised Look)
Michaela C. Hertkorn, Ph.D.
September 2002
Introduction
"There is the perception that, while France is a complicated country, but not posing a problem, Germany is not a complicated case, but can pose a problem."
"America and Germany will never drift apart. We have never been closer. Any tensions are simply due to 'Reibungsverluste durch Nähe'. It is a relationship of grown up kids with their parents."
In the US by late 2000, Senator Biden spoke of an unholy symbiosis, in which two seemingly unrelated developments on both sides of the Atlantic — that threatened to feed on each other — seriously jeopardized "the continued military engagement of the United States in Europe," — European Anti-Americanism and US unilateralism or even isolationism. Antony Blinken argued that, "this phony crisis in relations only makes it more difficult to tap the full potential of the transatlantic partnership."
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