Atlanticism, also known as Transatlanticism, is the ideology which advocates a close alliance between nations in Northern America and in Europe on political, economic, and defense issues. The purpose is to maintain or increase the security and prosperity of the participating countries and protect liberal democracy and the progressive values of an open society that unite them under multiculturalism. The term derives from the North Atlantic Ocean, which is bordered by North America and Europe.
Poster by the U.S. government promoting the Marshall Plan (1950)
Ronald Reagan speaking in Berlin, 1987 ("Tear down this wall!") with Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany. Reagan was a committed Atlanticist.
Paul D. Cravath, early Atlanticist Movement leader.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan (right) and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1986
Paul Drennan Cravath was a prominent American corporate lawyer and presiding partner of the New York law firm known today as Cravath, Swaine & Moore. At the firm, he devised and implemented the Cravath System which has come to define the structure and practice of most large American firms.
Paul Drennan Cravath
Paul Drennan Cravath with daughter Vera circa 1913
August Belmont Jr. (right) and Paul Drennan Cravath in 1913
