Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on relations between the United States and Europe. For related Web links, see Regional Resources: Europe, which includes links for Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Southeastern Europe and Supporting Democracy in Yugoslavia, and NATO at FIFTY: Web Links on the 50th anniversary of NATO.

• Government Agencies and Research Centers
• International Organizations
• Selected Documents

These links complement three Institute Special Reports:

1. Transatlantic Relations in the Aftermath of Kosovo
2. Defining the Path to a Peaceful, Undivided, and Democratic Europe
3. Europe in the 21st Century: A Strategy for Achieving Stable Peace

Government Agencies and Research Centers

Atlantic Council of the United States

• Atlantic Council of the United States
  Web site links to programs, publications, and an organizational directory, including a policy program on Transatlantic Relations , which outlines projects of the Council and links to related web sites. A search mechanism for the site is also available.

British American Security Information Council

• British American Security Information Council
  The web site for this independent research organization contains a section on European Security , with reports and analysis on the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI) .

United States

• DefenseLink: U. S. Department of Defense
  The web site contains defense news and information concerning the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Armed Forces, with a site map and search capability. The news section contains news articles, press releases, photos, transcripts of briefings, a news archive and speeches, including a speech by Secretary of Defense William Cohen on European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI) at the 36th Munich Conference on Security Policy, Feb. 5, 2000. Also lists links to several Department of Defense web sites.
• Developing a New, Comprehensive Relationship With Europe: U.S. Department of State
  This web page is part of the archived Department of State web site, with remarks, briefings, fact sheets and press statements on the U.S.-Europe relationship, including links to related web sites and archived material from 1996-1999.
• U. S. Mission to the EU
  The web site has current news, search capability, links to key U.S.-EU documents such as transatlantic dialogues on business, consumers and the environment, an archive of texts on issues grouped by subject, including ESDI--European Defense Issues.
• U. S. Mission to NATO
  The web site has several documents, fact sheets, policy statements, biographies, speeches, concerning NATO and U.S. policy issues, with links to other U.S. government web sites. Includes speeches by Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, the U.S. Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council on "ESDI: Berlin, St. Malo and Beyond - Remarks to the Western European Union Institute for Security Studies," Paris, January 28, 1999 and "European Security Post-Kosovo" , March 23, 2000.
• U. S. Mission to the OSCE
  The web site links to related U.S. government web sites, reports and statements by U. S. officials to the OSCE.
  

International Organizations

European Union (EU)

• Council of the European Union: Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)
  Part of the web site for the Council of the European Union, this page contains links to basic concepts of CFSP, legislation in force, common strategies, annual reports, a CFSP data base, and information (including his speeches and statements) on Javier Solana , the Secretary-General and High Representative for CFSP. Also links to a web page for a monitoring mission of the European Community in the former Yugoslavia (ECMM).
• The EU & South-Eastern Europe: The Stabilisation and Association Process
  The European Commission's comprehensive approach to southeastern Europe and Kosovo, with links to documents and speeches, council meetings and conclusions, and related links.
• Europa, the European Union's server
  Europa contains substantive material on the European Union, its institutions and policies, official documents, publications, news and other information resources.
• The European Union in the U.S.
  The web site of the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States includes a profile of the EU, a guide to the EU for Americans, news, publications, information resources, a subject guide to the EU web sites, policies and legislation and a section on the EU-US partnership . The latter includes a statement by Elmar Brok, chairman of the European Parliament, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy on "European Security and Defence Identity after the EU Summit in Cologne and the Transatlantic Link " before the U.S. House Committee on International Relations, November 10, 1999.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

• NATO Homepage
  Homepage of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with links to members and officials, texts, speeches, topics, publications, operations and other related sites. Includes a document describing the founding of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, its action plan for 1998-2000 and a list of EAPC member states, with links to each country's official institutions (if online).

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
  Web site of the OSCE includes news, a newsletter, journals, press releases, a documents archive and the OSCE Mission in Kosovo web pages.

Partnership for Peace (PFP)

• Partnership for Peace (PFP)
  NATO web page describing the Partnership for Peace organization, its member states, links to documents concerning each country on the NATO web site and links to NATO documents concerning the Partnership for Peace, including the Framework Document . Elsewhere on the NATO site is a list of senior government officials from PFP member countries.

World Bank

• Economic Reconstruction and Development in South East Europe
  A joint web site of the European Commission and the World Bank created "as part of the international community's response to the Kosovo crisis," it contains a calendar of events/conferences, news releases, speeches and statements , documents issued by the EU, UN, IMF and IMF/WB, including the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe dated June 10, 1999, links to related sites, with other sections of the web site under construction. The announcement of the launching of the joint web site describes the scope and types of information that will be covered, including assessment of the economic impacts and costs of the Kosovo crisis, reconstruction needs, and register of donor assistance.
  

Selected Documents

• Amsterdam Treaty
  Text and analysis of the Amsterdam Treaty of the European Union, which came into force in May 1999. This web page, from Europa, the EU's web server, lists information guides, press releases, and full text in html and PDF files (requires Adobe® Acrobat® Reader to view).
• Charter for European Security
  Text of the document signed by OSCE country representatives at the OSCE Summit in Istanbul, November 19, 1999 in which issues of cooperative security, rapid expert assistance and peacekeeping, among others, are addressed.
• Charter of Paris for a New Europe
  Text of a document from a meeting of the Heads of State or Government of the participating States of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE), in Paris, November 19-21, 1990.
• Declaration on European Defence
  Joint declaration agreed to by the heads of state of the governments of France and the United Kingdom on European defence at a British-French summit in St. Malo, France on December 4, 1998. From the web site of the Foreign and Commonwealth office of the United Kingdom.
• Defense Capabilities Initiative
  Text of the Initiative launched by the NATO Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. on April 25, 1999.
• A Risk Strategy for NATO: Document on European Security and Defense Identity (EDSI)
  Chapter 6 of a 1999 research report from the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), analyzing and describing the relationship between NATO and ESDI.
• Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
  Full text of the document adopted by numerous foreign ministers and representatives of regional organizations meeting in Cologne on June 10, 1999 under the aegis of the European Union in response to the Kosovo crisis.

Updated: May 15, 2002