Abstract

US-European relations, the basic process is the competition from the Americas to Asia, competition, local competition and then to Europe. World War II gave the U.S. an opportunity to directly intervene in European affairs, and the outbreak of the Cold War to the United States provides an opportunity to establish Western hegemony. During the Cold War, European countries after the war suffering hard to gradually solve the European integration as the plight of the path. With the European integration process, the U.S. and Europe increasingly apparent contradictions. In recent years, the U.S. and Europe in the crucial political ideas, especially the attitude towards the international system appeared on the strategic differences, both in principle and instrumental institutionalism institutionalist distinction more obvious. The general course for the development of US-Europe relations is that: it started with their struggle in America, then shifted to their contest for Asia, and finally moved their strive to European continent. World War Ⅱ provided the opportunity for the United States to interfere directly with the European Affairs, and the breakout of the Cold War gave US the chance to establish its hegemony in the west. During the Cold War, after the suffering of wars, European states rethought their former painful experiences and gradually found integration as the solution to their problems. With the process of European integration, the conflicts between the United States and Europe emerged one by one. In recent years, some strategic differences have occurred between the two sides in some of their critical political ideas, especially in their attitudes towards international institutions, and the split of instrumental institutionalism and principled institutionalism is becoming increasingly obvious