Europe’s Security Increasingly Lies Beyond NATO and the EU

With Washington’s leadership role fast evaporating, Europe’s coherence as a security community is in doubt. Within this context, the ad hoc and informal formats have gained a new prominence as a means to build European leadership and to generate quick action when NATO and the EU cannot deliver. But with the United States now apparently set on shifting away from Europe, there is a clear risk that the established European security order could atrophy in the absence of Washington’s engagement."