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Brussels Sprouts Live with Jens Stoltenberg and Julianne Smith
Podcast
In this special episode marking the podcast’s 5-year anniversary, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith join Andrea Kendall-Taylor...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Jens Stoltenberg & Julianne Smith
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Brussels Sprouts Live: Setting the Stage for Madrid
Podcast
Over the past several months, the NATO alliance has faced a tremendous challenge in responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While allied cohesion has been consistently ...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Julianne Smith, Steven Erlanger & David E. Sanger
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Live: How the Democrats Would Reshape Relations With Europe with Julie Smith and Tom Wright
Podcast
How could a new Democratic President revitalize the transatlantic relationship? Julie Smith and Tom Wright join Andrea Kendall Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss the potential...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend, Julianne Smith & Thomas Wright
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Germany and the State of the Transatlantic Relationship with Julie Smith
Podcast
Julie Smith, Director of the Asia Program at The German Marshall Fund, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to recap her year as the Weizsäcker Fellow at the Rober...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Jim Townsend & Julianne Smith
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The Old World and the Middle Kingdom
Commentary
Europe is beginning to face up to the challenges posed by a rising China. From the political debates roiling European capitals over the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei...
By Julianne Smith & Torrey Taussig
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If Trump Wants to Take On China, He Needs Allies
Commentary
With the prospect of a trade deal between China and the United States all but dead, the Trump administration is no doubt weighing its next steps in its quest to rein in Beijin...
By Julianne Smith
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From 'mein Mädchen' to 'leader of the free world,' Angela Merkel is winding down her political career
Podcast
President Donald Trump was the 2019 commencement speaker at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday. “In all things and ways, we are putting Amer...
By Julianne Smith
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Trump's Tough Talk On German Defense Spending Is Straining A Decades-Long Friendship
Podcast
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization turns 70, Germany's relatively low defense spending is angering President Trump, straining an alliance that goes back decades. Julian...
By Julianne Smith
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NATO Needs Solidarity for Its 70th Birthday
NATO marks its 70th anniversary this week—a remarkable milestone for a military alliance made up of 29 (soon to be 30) separate member states. But the big commemoration, sched...
By Julianne Smith
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German Foreign Policy is Stuck in Neutral
Commentary
Last summer I moved to Berlin. I was excited to escape Washington’s divisive and small-minded politics and focus on someone other than President Donald Trump, who seemed to be...
By Julianne Smith
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Transatlanticism, Interrupted
Commentary
Of all the smears that US President Donald Trump has made, his mendacious claims about the European Union are perhaps the most egregious. “Nobody treats us much worse than the...
By Julianne Smith
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A Question of Statecraft
Commentary
Any Western policymaker working in the field of national security over the past decade has had to grapple with the same disheartening reality: the structures and processes tha...
By Julianne Smith
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Pompeo’s Speech in Brussels Was Tone-Deaf and Arrogant
Commentary
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo set himself an impossible task for his speech in Brussels on Tuesday: take President Donald Trump’s disparaging and often contradictory remarks ...
By Julianne Smith
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The United States' Greatest Strength Over Russia and China is Its Alliance with Europe
Commentary
President Donald Trump has rightly recognized that America must do more to stand up to Chinese and Russian threats to U.S. interests. While most agree that having a national s...
By Andrea Kendall-Taylor & Julianne Smith
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Has the Transatlantic Alliance Been Irreparably Damaged?
Commentary
We at Foreign Affairs have recently published a number of pieces dealing with the transatlantic relationship. To complement these articles, we decided to ask a broad pool of e...
By Jim Townsend, Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Richard Fontaine & Julianne Smith
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Angela Merkel Could Save Europe. Why Won’t She?
Commentary
Campaigning in the spring of 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany declared at a packed beer hall in Bavaria that it was time for Europe to “take its destiny into its own ...
By Julianne Smith
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Julie Smith and Jim Townsend Reflect on the Podcast and Julie’s Upcoming Transition to Berlin
Podcast
Julie Smith and Jim Townsend sit down for a bookend episode of Brussels Sprouts to look back on previous episodes and what they’ve learned from them. They also take the time t...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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NATO in the Age of Trump
Commentary
Few NATO summits have captured the attention of this one—but for all the wrong reasons. On July 11, 29 heads of state and government will arrive at the new NATO headquarters b...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
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Lieutenant General (R) Ben Hodges on U.S. Troops in Europe, German Defense, and NATO’s Role in the Black Sea
Podcast
LTG (R) Ben Hodges, the Pershing Chair in Strategic Studies at the Center for European Policy Analysis, joins Julie Smith and Jim Townsend to discuss his recent piece advocati...
By Julianne Smith, Jim Townsend & Ben Hodges
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Special Edition: The 2018 NATO Summit – a European Perspective
Podcast
The 2018 NATO Summit is one of the most anticipated events in transatlantic relations this year. Seven European embassy defense representatives join Julie Smith and Jim Townse...
By Julianne Smith & Jim Townsend
