ABSTRACT
The American position on US- Economic Community (EC) relations is much more articulated and comprehensive than the EC one. The US has only one center of decision in foreign and military affairs. Since spring 1989, American policy has been to create more international cooperation, to limit East-West tensions, and to strengthen links with its Western allies. European integration has been viewed as a way to insure that the links between Germany and its Western European partners are so important that they cannot be severed. Use of European integration to anchor German reunification in the Western Alliance has always been one of the most fundamental aims of American policy toward Europe. The American plan toward the EC contains the several following objectives: Institutionalization of US-EC relations; strengthening the Western European Union; stabilization of Turkey; and co-administration of the world. The Bush administration emphasizes the need to take into account Turkey's place and prospects in the post-Cold War era.
