Europes Evolving Role in Us Grand Strategy - Indispensable Or Insufferable?

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Linde Desmaele, Linde (Massachusetts Institute of Techno Desmaele
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2025
• EAN: 9781032424699
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3242469-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Intergovernmental Organizations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, EU (European Union), International institutions, EU & European institutions