'Now', Ep. 6: Thomas Wright on the Crises Haunting Europe

It is a pleasure to welcome back Thomas Wright from the Brookings Institution. Tom is the director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a senior fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. His research at Brookings on European politics and the Trump foreign policy are exactly what suggested our callback to Tom. In this podcast we explore with Tom the growing frictions between President Trump and his European allies. We also seek to understand the growing populist politics in Europe - in Italy, in Germany and in the politics of Brexit in the United Kingdom. Tom and I had a chance to sit down after a number of turbulent weeks. President Trump joined the summit at NATO and roundly criticized his allies. He also visited with UK PM Teresa May after an interview with the Sun newspaper that likely thoroughly embarrassed her, especially after Trump praised Boris Johnson soon after his departure from May’s cabinet. And Trump thoroughly praised Vladimir Putin at the U.S. - Russia Summit calling into question his willingness to accept U.S. intelligence agency assessments that Russia had interfered in the U.S. 2016 elections. The turbulence in international relations is apparent and Tom and I try to thoroughly explore the various ‘crises in Europe’. Tom has undertaken much research in Trump foreign policy and European politics. He has recently written a book titled “All Measures Short of War: The Contest For the 21st Century and the Future of American Power” published by Yale University Press in May 2017.