ABSTRACT
Contrary to US policy in the Asia-Pacific, transatlantic relations quickly evolved from a bilateral partnership with the UK (1941) towards a multilateral relationship. Since 1943–47, the common global context of the Bretton Woods and the United Nations (UN) multilateral organizations framed the transatlantic partnership (Clark 2011, Patrick 2009, Telò 2014b), while a regionalist option still inspired the ‘hemispheric’ organization ‘Panamericana’ as the first regional/interregional institution (Nye 1968) and bilateral relations were favoured with the East-Asian allies, such as the alliance with Japan.
