The Case for EU Defense
A New Way Forward for Trans-Atlantic Security Relations
June 1, 2021, 7:45 pm Getty/Carl De Souza/AFP
The Dutch warship used by the EU Naval Force is pictured at the French military base in Djibouti in May 2015.
Sam Hananel
The state of European defense is not strong.
The level of Europe’s defense spending and the size of its collective forces in uniform should make it a global power with one of the strongest militaries in the world. But Europe does not act as one on defense, even though it formed a political union almost 30 years ago. Europe’s military strength today is far weaker than the sum of its parts. This is not just a European failure; it is also fundamentally a failure of America’s post-Cold War strategy toward Europe a strategy that remains virtually unchanged since the 1990s.
Washington, D.C. – A new report from the Center for American Progress argues that it is time for the United States to drop its longstanding opposition to European Union defense. The current state of European security is not strong and the EU could play a critical role in integrating European defense and strengthening NATO. The […]
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A National Policy Blueprint To End White Supremacist Violence
April 21, 2021, 12:01 am Getty/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Stanton Sharpe
A member of the Proud Boys guards the front stage during a rally in Portland, Oregon, on September 26, 2020.
Sam Hananel
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White supremacist violence is not new, but in recent years, it has become a primary national security threat in the United States.
1 Notions of racial superiority, hostility toward immigrants and minorities, and the myth of an embattled white majority defending its power have increasingly infiltrated mainstream American political and cultural discourse.
2 In October 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published its annual threat assessment, identifying racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, particularly white supremacist extremists, as “the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland.”