Imagine There’s No NATO: Germany as a New Middle-Sized Military Power in an Anarchic International Order

Imagine There’s No NATO: Germany as a New Middle-Sized Military Power in an Anarchic International Order

US President Donald Trump has done something no adversary of the United States ever managed: he has pitted the Atlantic alliance against itself. What was once assumed — a permanent American commitment to Europe’s security and to a liberal order it largely designed — is now openly in doubt. At Davos this week, Trump delivered a characteristically erratic speech that careened from topic to topic, insulting his hosts, threatening European economies…