Europe in danger: Navigating a future without Trump's America
Europe needs to spend less political energy managing Washington and more on increasing its own strength and strategic options.
Read →Europe needs a strong transatlantic relationship, but one built on greater European strength.
For decades, European strategy rested on the assumption that American support would remain available and that fundamental European and American strategic interests would broadly converge.
That assumption no longer holds.
Europe should continue to cooperate closely with the United States wherever interests align. But it also needs the capacity to stand its ground where they do not and reduce dependencies that could become instruments of pressure.
How should Europeans respond to the Trump tornado? What strategies work best to uphold security cooperation where possible while pushing back where necessary?
Read the publication →Europe needs to spend less political energy managing Washington and more on increasing its own strength and strategic options.
Read →European vulnerability is not confined to defence. The US dollar and its central place in the world's financial infrastructure are also instruments of geopolitical leverage.
Read →Twenty-five years earlier, a remarkably similar question: how should Europe respond when American unilateralism meets European weakness?
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