Ah Challenge: Pan-Atlanticism

[Rekjavik]

Whilst researching the theory of an 'Atlantic Revolution' for my exams a thought came to me about the possibility of some sort of Pan-Atlanticism, in other words an ideology that supported the idea of a greater amount of unification between both sides of the Atlantic, of Europe and the Americas, either economically or even politically.

So your challenge, should you accept it, is to foster a firm ideology of Pan-Atlanticism in the western world. It does not need to be supported by all, ideally it should be around the same level of popularity as modern day Pan-Europeanism, with both Atlantosceptics and pro-Atlantics. It can also exist alongside more local movements such as Pan-Europeanism and Pan-Americanism. I should also specify that the inclusion of Slavs or Latin Americans is optional, if I understand correctly there were debates regarding the "Europeaness" of the former and "Americanness" of the latter. I will be light on the PoD limits, since this is not the easiest of tasks, so you are not allowed a PoD earlier than 1700.

What can you come up with?

[Jasen777]

Isn't NATO a good start?

[Rekjavik]

Originally Posted by Jasen777

Isn't NATO a good start?

It might be, but I was hoping for an explanation as to how a Pan-Atlanticist movement could arise from something like NATO, or even earlier. What the OP asks for is an EU-type organisation that covers both sides of the Atlantic, rather than simply the military alliance we have today.

[arctic warrior]

What about a Europe more dependent upon Marshall aid.
Like the Soviets/Stalin incorporating Finland in the Warsaw Pact and as soon as US troops are withdrawn from Czechoslovakia a communist regime is installed; to make for a European need to have a strong Big Brother on the premises the threat of Soviet invasion to have communism spread being imminent.
Perhaps even a communist revolution in northern Italy to bring home the message and widespread strikes in France.