Table of Contents -- Preface (Giles Scott-Smith) -- Abbreviations -- Introduction (Giles Scott-Smith) -- PART I. US DOMESTIC POLITICS -- Barack Hussein Obama. His Powers of Language, His Language of Power (Rob Kroes) -- From Marginal to Mainstream. Barack Hussein Obama and the Enigma of American Identity (Dennis Hickey) -- Obama the Green? A Transatlantic Environmentalist Perspective (Marcel Wissenburg) -- PART II. US FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY -- The View from NATO (Jamie Shea) -- The Decline of the West? Transatlantic Relations in the Obama Era (Thomas W. Gijswijt) -- An Analysis of the Future. Defence Planning and Transatlantic Relations (Ruud Janssens) -- Competitors or Partners? The United States and Europe in the Middle East (Marianne van Leeuwen) -- A Long Way Down. European Expectations, Domestic Barriers and the "Obama Effect" in International Climate Change Policy (Moritz Baumgärtel) -- PART III. VIEWS FROM CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE -- The "Obama Effect" and the Possibility of Strategic Commonality between the US, Europe and Russia (Anna Zakharchenko) -- From Great Atlanticists to Great Europeans? The Impact of Obama's Foreign Policy on Central Europe (Katarzyna Pisarska) -- Pressing the Reset Button on US-Hungary Relations (László Marácz) -- PART IV. VIEWS FROM WESTERN EUROPE -- The End of a Special Relationship. Why There Was No "Obama Effect" in Dutch Afghanistan Policy, 2009-2010 (Ruud van Dijk) -- Bound by Silver Cords. The Dutch Intelligence Community in a Transatlantic Context (Beatrice de Graaf & Constant Hijzen) -- France, "Obamania", and the Issue of Race (Manuella Glaziou Tavares) -- Race, Empire, and the British-American "Special Relationship" in the Obama Era (Aaron Winter) -- PART V. THE LEGAL DIMENSION -- Keeping Promises? Obama and Human Rights (Kasey L. McCall-Smith).

President Obama's Impact on Transatlantic Legal Discourse (James Staab & Donald H. Wallace) -- The Arms Trade, Export Controls, and the "Obama Effect" (Debra D. Burke) -- National Security, Information Privacy, and Transatlantic Data Exchange (Marianne F.H. Hirsch Ballin) -- Conclusion (Giles Scott-Smith) -- Index -- Author Biographies.