Home alone II: Europe without America

Join us for the Department of International History's Annual Lecture!

We have entered a new era in international relations, which announced itself, first, through Russia’s increasing hostility towards the West from 2007 culminating in the all-out attack on Ukraine in 2022.

During the Cold War, US administrations felt directly threatened by the USSR, and committed to the defence of Europe through NATO as their first line of defence. After the end of the Cold War, however, US administrations became increasingly preoccupied with the rise of China while seeing Russia as less of a direct threat. This general trend was long predictable and became clearly observable in recent years, and particularly pronounced during the first and now the second Trump presidencies.

Is there a geostrategic “normality” to which the US is returning, and what consequences does this have for Europe?

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