cover image: Joe Biden's message to America's allies at the annual Munich Security Conference in 2019 was a simple one: "We will be back." Dignitaries

Joe Biden's message to America's allies at the annual Munich Security Conference in 2019 was a simple one: "We will be back." Dignitaries

5 Mar 2021

Joe Biden's message to America's allies at the reaffirmed unconditional US commitment to annual Munich Security Conference in 2019 was NATO: "the most effective political-military a simple one: "We will be back." Dignitaries alliance in modern history.”1 From a European from both sides of the Atlantic, who had been perspective, the contrast with the previous alarmed by the downward spiral of the A. [...] The Suez war of 1956, the Greek- shift since the end of the Cold War. [...] It threatens Turkish conflict over Cyprus in the 1970s, and the US primacy and the international liberal order, rift over the US-led Iraq invasion in 2003 were which America’s economic and military power critical tests of its resilience. [...] The multiple hurdles that stand in the way of The new Administration will also find America’s reinvigorating NATO, should not overshadow the international standing as the leading advocate of reality that the US and Europe need each other democracy and human rights diminished. [...] While China’s near-term focus is on Importantly, the multifaceted nature of Sino- US pushing the US out of the Indo-Pacific and rivalry, which spans the political, economic, and establishing regional hegemony, Beijing’s power technological dimensions, makes Europe’s will be increasingly felt in the North Atlantic military limitations of lesser importance.

Authors

Resilience League

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4
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Estonia