TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

Joshua Hunt
(RIEAS Senior Analyst, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee, USA)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 1 September 2025

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies

A quiet but dangerous ideology is growing within the United States: isolationism. Although it sounds quite patriotic on the surface, painting it as putting Americans first, in practice it will weaken the American position. It isn't about military withdrawal, but the growing perception of retreat and the vulnerabilities that it invites along with it. There is no way for the United States to prosper as an isolationist state and continue to stay stable. .. Read more

Theresa Lillelund
(Graduate student, MA International Relations, Webster University Athens)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 24 May 2025

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The Kingdom of Denmark, which includes Greenland and the Faroe Islands (the Danish Realm), has the chairmanship for the Arctic Council for the next two years. The Arctic Council has eight members, which include the United States and Russia, and six organisations that represent the Indigenous People of the Arctic.
Already in June 2021 it was decided between Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands that Greenland would represent the Danish Realm in the Arctic Council, and therefore it was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greenland, Vivian Motzfeldt, who took over the chairmanship on the 12th of May 2025. ... Read more

Ignatios Nesposountnii
(He received his BA from the Department of International Relations, History and Politics, Webster University Athens)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 3 March 2025

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The main political event of 2024 undoubtedly was Trump’s victory in the US elections. Similarly to the months before Trump’s first term, his 2024 presidential campaign was full of courageous plans and promises. The most ground-shaking initiative in the field of foreign policy was the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia who have been at violent war for three years now. The politician first mentioned it in his social media post in March 2023 and repeatedly expanded on this issue during his political rallies and in several interviews over the past two years. ... Read more

Robert Ellis
(An international advisor at the Research Institute for European and American Studies in Athens.

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 23 February 2025

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There is no doubt that U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s contribution to the Munich Security Conference was like a bucket of cold water. He began by claiming that what he wanted was to talk about was shared values but he did nothing of the kind.

Vance treated delegates like recalcitrant schoolchildren and lectured them on free speech. However, he got to the point and declared that in Washington there is a new sheriff in town and talked of burden sharing, that the Europeans should step up while America focuses on areas of the world that are in great danger (read: China and Taiwan). ... Read more

Alexander Paine
(Commentator based in Austin Texas, USA)

Copyright: @ 2025 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 16 February 2025

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The world has become aware that the Trump Administration’s Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk and a handful of brilliant young techies, has shut down USAID programs and put the entire agency on the chopping block forcing a complete shut-down. Trump, Musk, Rubio and their lieutenants are adamant that this agency must go or be drastically reformed. In my view they are right on target and for many good reasons... Read more

The 75th NATO Anniversary Summit in Washington was a formidable manifestation of the raison d’etre of the transatlantic alliance and its successes to manage the transformation from the 20th to the 21st century.

Margarita Mathiopoulos
(CEO of ASPIDE Technology and Professor em.of US Foreign Policy and International Security at Potsdam Univ.; she served as foreign policy advisor to the Chairman of the German FDP 2002-2011; she is author of seven books and numerous articles on the Transatlantic Relationship; Chinese-Russian relations, NATO-strategy or about a New World Order. She is one of the initiators of this NATO-Manifesto)

Authors: Elmar Brok,Charles Grant, Ambassador Istvan Gyarmati, Toomas Ilves, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Admiral Jacques Lanxade, Denis MacShane, Professor Margarita Mathiopoulos, Ambassador Nadeshda Michailova, General ret. Klaus Naumann, Eduardo Serra Rexach, Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, Professor Rob de Wijk.

Copyright@ 2024 https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/10/01/why-we-need-a-new-nato-a-european-manifesto/ The Article is posted at RIEAS web site on 7 October 2024.

Note: The Article was also published by the Atlantic Council and Modern Diplomacy

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies

The 75th NATO Anniversary Summit in Washington was a formidable manifestation of the raison d’etre of the transatlantic alliance and its successes to manage the transformation from the 20th to the 21st century – from the dark days of the cold war to a more optimistic post-cold-war period up to today’s new world of multiple strategic uncertainties, instabilities and challenges. Read more