STEPHEN F. SZABO*
Germany and the United States after Iraq
From Alliance to Alignment

The rapid deterioration of US-German relations in the Iraq crisis signals longer-term underlying strategic and cultural changes. Future cooperation will be based less on common values than on the calculation of interests. While elements of a common strategic agenda are discernable, the weakening of the Atlanticist foundation of German policy will have to be compensated for by its European pillar.