Wake Up Europe: The US Is Dying and the New Is Yet to Be Born.

On Feb. 27, 2025, I gave a keynote presentation for The New Institute in Hamburg, a center for innovative thinking on the main challenges facing Europe and the world today. My talk provided an assessment of the first days of the Trump administration, and the impact on US policy and polity internally as well as in terms of foreign policy, followed by a discussion of how Europe could, and should, stand up to the challenge not only in terms of security and defense but also with regard to the green transition and addressing social inequality. I concluded with a discussion of the rise of populism not only in the US but also in Europe, and how that could play out in the European Union in the near future, given the likely election of extreme right parties to govern either alone or in coalition with conservative parties across Europe.