Explaining crisis and change in transatlantic relations : an introduction / G. John Ikenberry -- Inevitable decline versus predestined stability : disciplinary explanations of the evolving transatlantic order / Gunther Hellmann -- The ghost of crises past : the troubled alliance in historical perspective / William I. Hitchcock -- Iraq and previous transatlantic crises : divided by threat, not institutions or values / Henry R. Nau -- The Atlantic order in transition : the nature of change in U.S.-European relations / Charles A. Kupchan -- Trade is no superglue : the changing political economy of transatlantic relations / Jens van Scherpenberg -- The ties that bind? : U.S.-EU economic relations and the institutionalization of the transatlantic alliance / Kathleen R. McNamara -- Crisis, what crisis? : transatlantic differences and the foundations of international law / Michael Byers -- The sovereign foundations of transatlantic crisis in the post-9/11 era / Jeffrey Anderson -- Passions within reason / John A. Hall -- American exceptionalism or western civilization? / Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann -- The end of the West? : conclusions / Thomas Risse.