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A Letter From the Editor: The Transatlantic Alliance’s Existential Challenge

Europe and the United States face many external threats, yet the biggest one may lie within. Strategic Europe’s editor in chief reflects on the lessons of 2024 and examines how transatlantic partners can secure their future.

· January 7, 2025
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It’s Time For Europe’s Magical Thinking on Defense to End

The United States has not really underwritten European security for decades. No matter what happens next, European defense depends on Europeans themselves.

· December 30, 2024
Financial Times
Taking the Pulse: This Year’s Good and the Coming Bad and Ugly

As the year draws to a close, experts reflect on the positives of 2024 and share their concerns for 2025.*

· December 19, 2024
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Can Democracy Survive the Disruptive Power of AI?

AI models enable malicious actors to manipulate information and disrupt electoral processes, threatening democracies. Tackling these challenges requires a comprehensive approach that combines technical solutions and societal efforts.

· December 18, 2024
Why a Rapid U.S. Withdrawal From Europe Will Reinforce China

The incoming Trump administration plans to focus on China while letting Europe fend for itself. Yet deprioritizing the transatlantic relationship could backfire, pushing Europe closer to Beijing and undermining U.S. interests in the long term.

  • Olivier Schmitt
· December 17, 2024
This picture taken on October 12, 2015 shows the C-Lion1 submarine telecommunications cable being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea by cable laying ship "Ile de Brehat" off the shore of Helsinki, Finland.
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Securing Europe’s Subsea Data Cables

As the contest between China and the United States ramps up and Russia becomes ever more emboldened in its attacks on European infrastructure, Europeans must invest more to leverage their existing advantages in this realm and protect the competitiveness, resilience, and security of their subsea cable infrastructure.

· December 16, 2024