Abstract
This text has been written by Stephen Martin Walt, a professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of government. According to him the security community between the United States and Europe comes to an end, in spite of the misleading good health of the NATO. The Atlantic community was mainly based on America's willingness to protect its European ally from the USSR. Throughout the 20th century America intervened abroad only when other great powers were trying to establish their hegemony in Europe or in Asia. The disappearance of the USSR entailed the end of the common interest between Europe and the United States.
