Coherence at Last? Transatlantic Cooperation in Response to the Geostrategic Challenge of China

In light of the larger contextual picture increased geostrategic rivalry with China, this article focuses on question whether transatlantic cooperation responses towards challenge China can possibly be coherent at all. How we explain actions (or lack thereof) between actors across Atlantic in their foreign policy China? The central idea then is to from a coherence angle, providing us perspective by which understand why both sides invest coherence, or rather not. We argue that angle relations particularly promising as it combines focus and structural dimensions able offer explanations whom, where, achieved. By looking into two different cases, so-called concerted sanctions case AUKUS case, find both, incoherence, respectively, response strategic China. Overall, has important implications, point underlying factors policy-making push obstruct coherence.