1st Edition
Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?
By Linde Desmaele
Copyright 2024
188 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
188 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
188 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book looks at the evolution of the role of Europe in US grand strategy, and unpacks how US administrations have instrumentalized this relationship in pursuit of extra-European objectives.
The work considers geopolitical pressures in conjunction with leaders’ strategic ideas to provide an account of the evolution of the role of Europe in the context of US grand strategy. Observers generally... Read more
Introduction
2. Explaining the role of Europe in US grand strategy
3. Europe in US grand strategy: A historical overview
4. An obedient Europe as a subordinate partner in the War on Terror
5. A post-American Europe as an enabler of Obama’s rebalancing
6. A Europe divided, weak and relatively inconsequential as Trump’s America outcompetes China
Conclusion
Biography
Linde Desmaele is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Senior Associate Researcher at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
