Media mentions – US Domestic Politics

There wasn’t really any truly strategic approach or planning on solving the Serbia-Kosovo dispute, rather it was a kind of a PR event that was very important for the campaign

While strategic stability plays some role in the German discourse, particularly among academics, there is no discussion of arms control as part of competitive military strategy

In my conversations with French diplomats, they often portray Trump as the final nail in the coffin of the transatlantic alliance — given that he has questioned American security guarantees for Europe and supposedly driven NATO to ‘brain death

It’s terribly, terribly fraught, really in either administration, but more fraught I think in the Trump administration

European Union officials increasingly have begun considering the real security implications of a second Trump term. They are extraordinarily worried about it

If Trump plays off security dependencies of different EU states, the EU could be divided

This highlights that what has always been destabilizing about Trump’s administration is not really his policies — it is him. In this sense, the worry from foreign governments will likely be its effect on the president’s fragile psyche

A victory for Biden promises a partner for Europe in the White House who wants to restore US leadership on the international stage. But this does not allow Europe to break free. After all, Biden’s first responsibilities will be to the internal crisis he inherits

Foreigners would probably view the debate as another sign of the degradation of American democracy

This election is crucial for Germany because we have always built our foreign policy on the back of a transatlantic friendship