European Union flags in front of the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium (TPCOM)
In a 7-minute interview with the Bertelsmann Foundation, I discuss Europe’s defense and security.
I set out the “greatest threat” of “the dissolution of the international rules-based order established after 1945”.
That order — in terms of law, in terms of security, in terms of diplomacy — is specifically threatened because for the first time since 1941, we do not have an alliance between a US Government and European partners.
In the absence of that alliance, one cannot make assumptions about the planning of European security. You cannot assume that American officials, or even American agencies, will be on board.
So there has to be a re-evaluation about arranging for that security and rules-based order beginning with Europe, but also reaching out to countries in other parts of the world.
I discuss the differences between capabilities and capacities, a vital issue given Ukraine’s ongoing resistance of Russia’s full-scale invasion, and I consider what a “cohesive European foreign policy” might look like.
