ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that any new definition of American national interests and security requirements include continuing American involvement in the security of Europe-in the safeguarding of the European peace order the United States has done so much to create. One of the most novel aspects of the post-war revolution in American foreign policy was the definition of Europe as somehow immutably part of the American security identity. One aspect of the new Europe that Americans will find rewarding will be the increasing emphasis placed on democratic rule as the critical standard for bilateral and multilateral relationships. Much can derail the fundamental assumptions about the future of American-European relations in the 1990s. The United States will have to adjust to the new economic competition with Europe with greater equanimity and downgrade the significance of military power in US foreign policy generally and with regard to Europe in particular.
