Revitalizing the Transatlantic Security Partnership
An Agenda for Action
During the course of 2008, the RAND Corporation and the Bertelsmann Foundation’s Venusberg Group sponsored a series of U.S.-European discussions examining future security challenges confronting the United States and Europe in the context of the election of a new American president. This report by F. Stephen Larrabee (RAND) and Julian Lindley-French (Netherlands and United Kingdom Defense Academies) refers to those discussions, although the two authors are solely responsible for its final content. Participants in the series of meetings are listed on page six. Their participation in the meetings does not mean that they endorse the report in its entirety, but that they are familiar with its content and are willing to have their name listed as participants in the process.
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