Patterns and strategy in current U.S. foreign policy are hard to discern given President Donald Trump’s personalistic, mercurial, and transactional style. But almost a year since the elections, the ...

Europe has a lot of power. But it needs the willingness to wield it. The time is now. The United States is no longer a reliable partner for Germany and Europe. U.S. president Donald Trump calls ...

Europe and the United States are on the verge of the most momentous conscious uncoupling in international relations in decades. Since 1949, NATO has been the one constant in world security. Initially ...

This white paper is part of the Project on the Future of Europe, a project from the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program examining the European Union's growing geopolitical role and the ...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has signed Europe up to a humiliating, unequal trade deal with the United States. The terms dictated by Donald Trump reflect Europe’s vassal status as an increasingly ...

The United States can serve as a backstop. Europe must be the frontline. Europe must finally take ownership of the continent’s security and future. True allies share burdens. They do not ask others to ...

In a speech in Munich in February, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris affirmed that Washington’s commitment to its NATO allies is “ironclad.” Now the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris is largely ...

The United States expects its European allies to take on a much greater burden of conventional deterrence in Europe as the continent faces a threat from a belligerent and revanchist Russia. If Europe ...

Germany and Europe need both diplomatic efforts vis-à-vis Russia and a credible deterrence as they transform the old continent into a regional and global power. Those in Germany advocating for a peace ...

For decades, the United States had asked its NATO allies in Europe to do more for their own defense. And by the alliance’s 2024 summit in Washington, they had gotten the message. Twenty-three of ...