There is no such thing as transatlantic relations under President Barack Obama, says Roger Cohen:

Europe, for the first time in hundreds of years, has become a strategic backwater. Europe is history.

Since taking office, President Obama has reached out to the Muslim world as a whole, to China, to Turkey and to Iran, but has devoted scant serious diplomatic energy to Europe. In many ways, he is the first post-Atlanticist president, drawn by temperament, upbringing and circumstance to focus elsewhere.

“Europe is the object of benign U.S. neglect,” said Camille Grand, a prominent Paris-based defense analyst. “Obama has not established or re-established a strategic relationship with any single European country or with Europe as a whole.”

New York Times Op-Ed: Europe and Benign Neglect