Transatlantic Relations: the Long Holiday from History is Over. CEPOB #6.19, September 2019
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2019

Following seven decades of global engagement, the US is returning to its natural state of retrenchment, but encumbered by an expansive global military footprint and alliance structure. The US must decide whether to maintain these outward facing structures, allow them to go fallow, or re-treat from them entirely. The United States and the European Union seek the benefits of a benevolent and stable global order which was underwritten in large part by the US, but neither of them wishes to shoulder