Leonard Schuette

Leonard Schuette

Leonard Schuette is PhD candidate at the University of Maastricht and currently visiting researcher at the University of Oxford. His research interests include European security, EU foreign policy, and international organizations. His work has also appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of Contemporary European Research, and the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. He has published policy briefs for several think tanks and commentaries for media outlets including The Times, New Statesman, and the Tagesspiegel.

Leonard Schuette

6+1 Questions about “Why NATO survived Trump: the neglected role of Secretary-General Stoltenberg”

by Leonard Schuette | 4 November, 2021 | 6+1 Questions, International Affairs, Journal Articles, Security, US Foreign Policy

Not many know that Trump was on the verge of publicly announcing U.S. withdrawal from the alliance at the 2018 summit. Congress would have prevented a formal end to U.S. membership, but Trump’s announcement itself would have caused irreparable damage. Why then did Trump change his position on NATO in 2019? And why was NATO, at least in military terms, in better state when Trump left office than when he began his term?

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