When Your Ally Turns Narcissistic: A Self-Help Manual for Europe Navigating Transatlantic Relations
Since the start of the second Trump administration, every day has brought a new foreign policy controversy. Europe is in a particularly vulnerable position. Russia’s threat to European security has reached its highest level in 30 years, and although European defense capabilities are expanding, Europe is quite unable to withstand an external attack without US support, while Washington has now become an unreliable ally. This report by by Sofie Stoffel and Philipp Yorck Herzberg for the
Global Public Policy Institute offers a new approach to understanding – and countering – the unprecedented ways in which the current US administration wields power vis-à-vis its allies. By applying insights from psychological research, this study demonstrates that Washington’s actions, while seemingly erratic, often follow an identifiable logic, driven by status, visibility and hierarchy.
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