The Inevitable Alliance (PDF)

VITTORIO EMANUELE PARSI is a Professor at the Catholic University of Milan, Italy.

'There has been so much pessimism about the current state of the transatlantic relationship - and even more criticism of the conduct of American foreign policy under Bush - that it comes as something of a relief to read Vittorio Parsi's brilliant counter-attack. Shunning the normal 'European' fashions, he calmly dissects why the West is still alive and well and why we continue to need (even if we don't much like) US[ULB1] primacy. A breath of fresh air' - Michael Cox, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics

'Professor Vittorio Parsi has emerged in recent years as Italy's leading scholar of international relations. He combines intelligence and sophistication to advance original arguments about Europe, America and the global system in which they are both creators and captive. All serious scholars of international relations should ponder the learned analysis that Parsi offers' - G. John Ikenberry, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

'Vittorio Parsi offers in The Inevitable Alliance a learned and thoughtful analysis of the development of the European-American political and military relations from the end of the Cold War to the beginning of the Iraq War. Parsi is an insightful and elegant writer, and his ideas and arguments will be of interest to students, scholars, journalists, and policy officials.' - Joseph M. Grieco, Professor of Political Science, Duke University

'Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, perhaps the leading young scholar of international relations in Italy today, has written an important book on the future of European-American relations. A committed Atlanticist, he distinguishes his view from the pacifist Left in Europe that eschews all use of force as well as from the Bush administration whose go-it-alone proclivities have alarmed the allies. Parsi recognizes a need for military force, but he also values international law and institutions. He criticizes the