Europe and Trump’s National Security Strategy

The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy seeks sweeping changes to the way the U.S. engages with the rest of the world. Nowhere is this new thinking more apparent than in its approach to Europe, which goes beyond calls for increased burden sharing and instead proposes a more fundamental recalibration of the transatlantic relationship that emerged after 1945 and persisted through the post-Cold War period. What exactly does this shift entail and what are its broader implications?

To discuss these questions and more, join a panel discussion featuring Anatol Lieven, director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and Andrew Bacevich Chair in US Diplomatic History, Stephen Wertheim, senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow & director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities. Mark Episkopos, research fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, will moderate.
This intervention — the most audacious U.S. military project in Latin America in decades — has rapidly reshaped the geopolitical landscape. International reactions range from strong condemnation by regional governments who decry violations of sovereignty to allied statements that welcome the removal of Maduro’s authoritarian regime. What is likely to happen now in Venezuela? Will this be a successful regime change operation, or will it follow the path of Iraq and Libya? What will be the implications of the administration’s assertion of America’s domination of the Western Hemisphere, and how will regional states react in the long run? And what are the global implications? Will this set a precedent that China will use in Taiwan, for instance?