{"id":33976,"date":"2018-07-16T09:24:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T13:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=33976"},"modified":"2021-02-03T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T21:38:09","slug":"33976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2018\/07\/16\/33976\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifrinson Publishes Essay on Trump and NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joshua Shifrinson<\/a>, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently published an essay examining the relationship between the United States and NATO under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Shifrinson’s essay, entitled “Sound and Fury, Signifying Something? NATO and the Trump Administration\u2019s Second Year,<\/a>” was published on July 15, 2018 as part of the\u00a0the H-Diplo\/ISSF<\/em><\/a> series \u201cAmerica and the World-2017 and Beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n

From the text of the essay:<\/p>\n

As the Trump administration\u2019s second year in office rolls onward, what is the state of the transatlantic alliance? Writing for H-Diplo last year, I argued that Trump\u2019s first year in office saw the emergence of a \u201cTrumpian NATO policy.”<\/span>In brief, this policy encompassed significant continuity with the substance of prior U.S. policy towards NATO, coupled with highly conditional U.S. rhetorical backing for the transatlantic relationship. As Trump\u2014in a break from his campaign rhetoric\u2014emphasized through mid-2017, NATO provided value to the United States, even as he suggested the United States might exit the alliance should its allies not agree to U.S. demands in intra-alliance discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n

One year on, the fundamentals of this policy have not changed. The substance of U.S. policy towards NATO is strikingly similar to that of prior administrations, whereas the rhetoric remains a stark departure from past practice. Moreover, the bifurcated European response to Trump\u2019s policy\u2014praising the substance and decrying the rhetoric\u2014has, if anything, grown clearer. Instead, the big shift has come in how many analysts themselves assess the long-term impact of Trump\u2019s strategy. If 2017 saw analysts worried that Trump would rock the foundations of the \u201cliberal international order\u201d\u2014with NATO at its core\u2014then 2018 has seen scholars and policymakers alike increasingly debating whether the liberal order can recover at all from Trump\u2019s assault. This situation, in turn, raises questions over the factors\u2014rhetorical, substantive, or some combination\u2014that have allowed NATO to survive and thrive over the last seventy years, and whether there is sufficient give in the transatlantic relationship to endure a potentially rocky road for the indefinite future.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson\u2019s<\/a> teaching and research interests focus on the intersection of international security and diplomatic history, particularly the rise and fall of great powers and the origins of grand strategy.\u00a0 He has special expertise in great power politics since 1945 and U.S. engagement in\u00a0Europe and Asia.\u00a0Shifrinson\u2019s first book,\u00a0Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts<\/i>\u00a0(Cornell University Press, 2018)\u00a0builds on extensive archival research focused on\u00a0U.S. and Soviet foreign policy after 1945\u00a0to explain\u00a0why some rising states challenge and prey upon declining great powers, while others seek to support and cooperate with declining states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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