Trump Has Irrevocably Changed American Relations With Europe—and Biden Probably Can’t Fix It
Tensions between the United States and the EU risk continuing and even growing, whoever wins the White House in six months.
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David Whineray
Nonresident Fellow, Europe Program
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David Whineray is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
David Whineray was a nonresident fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. He is also a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, a senior visiting fellow at the United Nations University Center for Policy Research in New York, a visiting assistant professor of global affairs at New York University (NYU), and a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York. Whineray’s areas of focus include transatlantic relations, U.S. politics and U.S. foreign policy, UK foreign policy, Brexit, the EU/Europe, Asia-Pacific, international organizations, multilateralism, negotiations, the G7, and UN.
Whineray has 20 years of senior diplomatic and government experience in Washington, New York, London, and Brussels, including in the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), 10 Downing Street, the EU External Action Service, the European Parliament, and the UK Department of the Interior.
Whineray’s last government role was deputy under secretary of state for political affairs in the FCO. Prior to this, Whineray served as FCO deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe, and FCO deputy assistant secretary of state for Asia-Pacific. Whineray was also UK Sherpa to the 2015 ASEM Summit of Asian and European Heads of Government.
Whineray’s other previous FCO positions include deputy head of the FCO’s Europe Department, first secretary (political) at the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations in New York, FCO deputy director for human resources, chief of staff to the UK deputy foreign minister, and an FCO spokesperson and press secretary.
In addition, Whineray has also served as counselor and head of political affairs at the European Union Delegation to the United States in Washington, DC; as an Advisor in 10 Downing Street (under Prime Minister Tony Blair); in the European Parliament in Brussels; on a U.S. election campaign; and on international crime in the UK Department of the Interior.
Whineray has an MSc (awarded with distinction) in Political Science from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Relations from the University of Durham.
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The G2 at the UN: The United States and the People’s Republic of China at the United Nations Before COVID-19
The role and powers of the World Health Organization (WHO), for example, have emerged as a canvas onto which a variety of actors have projected their visions of the future of multilateralism.
Letter: UN’s Mixed Performance on Covid-19 Is Fault of U.S. and China
The UN has shown itself unable to deliver a co-ordinated global response to what the UN secretary-general has termed the biggest global crisis since 1945.
Trump’s Actions Allowed China to Gain Huge Global Influence. But Coronavirus Has Gifted Him an Opportunity
China’s rise and new transnational threats leave the United States with a unique opportunity to reform the UN in its national interest.
Coronavirus has Eerie Parallels with the First World War. Its Effects Will Likely be the Same, Too
If the fight against coronavirus is a war—and there are also good arguments why such an analogy is misleading—what war is it?
U.S. Relations with Europe Likely to Remain Strained Regardless Who Wins November Election
The view of senior European diplomats in Washington is that the Trump administration’s focus on isolationism, protectionism and burden sharing was a reflection of wider changes in Americans’ view about United States’ role in world
Letter: Europeans’ Trust in American Leadership is Damaged Beyond Repair
European trust in U.S. global leadership may be damaged beyond repair.
The United States’ Current and Future Relationship With the United Nations
An important question for other UN Member States is whether the shift in U.S. global outlook under the Trump Administration marks a four year aberration from, or the new normal for, U.S. foreign policy.
How Europe Views Transatlantic Relations Ahead of the 2020 U.S. Election
No matter who wins in November, turning back the clock to 2016 will not be possible. European trust in U.S. leadership has been irreparably damaged.
· February 20, 2020
Lessons for Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding from Darfur
As the UN and African Union start to look towards transitioning from peacekeeping to peacebuilding in Darfur, what lessons are there for Sudan, UN peacekeeping, and addressing future humanitarian crises?