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Transatlantic Relations— What’S Next? PERRY WORLD HOUSE POLICY BRIEF Transatlantic Relations— What’s Next? Essays by University of Pennsylvania Faculty and Scholars June 2019 PERRY WORLD HOUSE POLICY BRIEF Transatlantic Relations— What’s Next? Essays by University of Pennsylvania Faculty and Scholars The German Marshall Fund’s Brussels Forum, June 2019 GLOBAL ORDER 03 Introduction FACULTY RESEARCH THEME DIRECTORS William Burke-White, 04 Biographies of Penn Contributors Richard Perry Professor of Law and Inaugural Director of Perry World House 05 Essays Michael C. Horowitz, Professor of WHAT DO E.U., U.K., AND U.S. POLITICS Political Science and Associate MEAN FOR TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS? .......................... 05 Director of Perry World House By Spencer P. Boyer WHAT IS NATO’S MAIN CHALLENGE NOW? ......................... 08 By Michael Carpenter These pieces reflect the individual views of the authors. WHAT ENDED THE COLD WAR? ............................................... 10 By William Ewald HOW CAN TRANSATLANTIC POLICYMAKERS REINFORCE AND REVISE THE INSTITUTIONS, NORMS, AND LAWS THAT UNDERGIRD THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER? ......................................................... 12 By Julia Gray HOW CAN TRANSATLANTIC POLICYMAKERS CONFRONT RISING POPULISM? ............................................... 14 By Julia Lynch WHAT ARE AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN OFFICIALS DOING TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE EMBEDDED LIBERALISM? ..................................... 17 By Edward D. Mansfield and Nita Rudra DO SMALL STATES MATTER IN TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS? ................................................ 19 By Brendan O’Leary WHAT CAN COUNTRIES LIKE BELARUS AND MOLDOVA TEACH THE TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNITY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WESTERN POLITICS? ................................................................. 21 By Mitchell Orenstein GLOBAL.UPENN.EDU/PERRYWORLDHOUSE 2 Introduction In the past few years, divergences • How can transatlantic policymakers reinforce and across the Atlantic have led some revise the institutions, norms, and laws that undergird the international order? to question the future of the • How can transatlantic policymakers confront transatlantic partnership. rising populism? • What are American and European offi cials doing to The transatlantic bond now appears weaker than before, protect and promote embedded liberalism? as states rethink their strategic priorities in light of • Do small states matter in transatlantic relations? current geopolitical trends and with a renewed focus on national (rather than mutual) interests. Leadership • What can countries like Belarus and Moldova teach changes in several countries and the rise of populist and the transatlantic community about the future of nationalist movements have contributed to loosening Western politics? transatlantic ties, with states now struggling to fi nd a common course of action vis-á-vis an array of issues: In our short history, Perry World House has helped Penn China’s rising infl uence, Russia’s international ambitions, usher in a new era of global engagement and Iran sanctions, engagement in the Middle East, the international-policy impact. Like this policy brief, Perry migration crisis, Libya’s political instability, etc. World House—its programs and the building itself— builds on Penn’s strengths in teaching, interdisciplinary At a moment of change and challenge in the United scholarship, and policy-relevant research. States, Europe, and beyond, Perry World House, the University of Pennsylvania’s global-aff airs think tank, Located in the heart of campus at 38th Street and Locust called upon the world-class faculty and scholars at Penn Walk, Perry World House draws on the expertise of to identify the most important questions facing the Penn’s 12 schools and numerous globally oriented transatlantic community. This policy brief explains why research centers to educate the Penn community and each question is so important and suggests answers to prepare students for an increasingly globalized society. At each, including: the same time, Perry World House connects Penn with leading experts from around the world to develop and • What do E.U., U.K., and U.S. politics mean for advance innovative policy proposals. We have convened transatlantic relations? conversations in Philadelphia around the most pressing global challenges and catalyzed interdisciplinary and • What is NATO’s main challenge now? policy-relevant research by scholars at Penn and around • What ended the Cold War? the world. GLOBAL.UPENN.EDU/PERRYWORLDHOUSE 3 Biographies of Penn Contributors Spencer P. Boyer is a Senior Fellow at Ed Mansfield is the Hum Rosen P the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy rofessor of Political Science and the and Global Engagement at the University Director of the Christopher H. Browne of Pennsylvania and an Adjunct Professor Center for International Politics at the at Georgetown University’s School of University of Pennsylvania. He is the Foreign Service. During the Obama author of Power, Trade, and War administration, he served as a Deputy (Princeton University Press, 1994); Assistant Secretary of State for European Electing to Fight: Why Emerging and Eurasian Affairs and as the National Democracies Go to War (with Jack Intelligence Officer for Europe in the Snyder) (MIT Press, 2005); Votes, Vetoes, National Intelligence Council. and the Political Economy of International Trade Agreements (with Helen V. Milner) (Princeton University Press, 2012); and Michael Carpenter is the Senior The Political Economy of International Director at the Penn Biden Center for Trade (World Scientific, 2015). He writes Diplomacy and Global Engagement. He here with Nita Rudra, a Professor of previously served in the Pentagon as Government at Georgetown University. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Conventional Arms Control. Brendan O’Leary, an E.U., Irish, and U.S. citizen, is the Lauder Professor of Political Science at the University of William Ewald is a Professor of Law Pennsylvania. A Treatise on Northern and Philosophy at the University of Ireland (three volumes) was published in Pennsylvania, where he teaches the United States in June 2019 by Oxford comparative law. University Press. Julia Gray is an Associate Professor of Mitchell Orenstein is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Russian and East European studies at the Pennsylvania, specializing in international University of Pennsylvania and a Senior relations with a focus on international Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research political economy. Her book, The Company Institute. His new book, The Lands in You Keep: International Organization and Between: Russia vs. the West and the New Sovereign Risk in Emerging Markets, is Politics of Hybrid War, was released in currently under contract at Cambridge May by Oxford University Press. University Press. Julia Lynch is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the politics of inequality and social policy in the rich democracies, particularly in the countries of western Europe. GLOBAL.UPENN.EDU/PERRYWORLDHOUSE 4 What do E.U., U.K., and U.S. Politics Mean for Transatlantic Relations? By Spencer P. Boyer THE CURRENT TRANSATLANTIC MOMENT continuing to support right-wing populist parties, is there As Americans barrel toward the U.S. presidential any reason for optimism? Despite outcomes through 2020 elections in 2020 and Europeans confront the possibility that could inalterably shift the U.S.–European of a no-deal Brexit this fall, there are competing relationship in a negative direction, are there any narratives about the current state of transatlantic lesser-known opportunities for closer ties heading into relations and what the next year and a half will mean for the next decade? the identities of both the United States and Europe. The Donald J. Trump administration’s rampage through AMERICAN IDENTITY AND CHOICES established international norms, the failure of U.K. Any predictions about the transatlantic community’s Prime Minister Theresa May to bring her own party to future are, of course, marbled with the current political agreement on an exit deal with the European Union, and crisis in the United States. Trump’s “America First” the strength of populist movements across Europe have mantra and ethnic–nationalist policies regarding who left many champions of transatlanticism demoralized should be admitted to the United States—whether and frightened about the future. The reasons for asylum seekers at the southern border or travelers from pessimism are clear. Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East—have Despite arguments for viewing the current state of play primed the president’s narrative about the United States through a glass-half-full prism—based mainly on a being under siege. Traditional European allies—including notion that working-level experts on both sides of the the European Union, which Trump deemed a “foe” in 1 Atlantic are keeping things afloat—mounting 2018 —have been lumped together with countries truly transatlantic tensions over major policy issues, like unfriendly to U.S. and broader Western interests. relations with Iran and climate change, and public spats Trump’s antagonism toward Euro–Atlantic institutions between Trump and friendly foreign leaders, make it and leaders who disagree with him is a byproduct of the hard to argue that business as usual at lower levels is president’s transactional, zero-sum worldview, where enough. The world has seen how the American there are only
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