In a more uncertain world, securing a strong security relationship to its traditional partner and ally, the United States (US), is more important than ever for the Europeans. Yet, research and recent developments suggest that Europe is facing a real possibility that the transatlantic relationship may be seriously weakened. The TransatDefence project sets out to explore longer-term and ongoing changes in the transatlantic security relationship, what this tells us about the future direction in which the relationship is going, and what this implies for Europe and Norway.
We ask:
- Are transatlantic security and defence relations weakening?
- If so, what are the implications of weaker transatlantic ties for emerging European security structures, in the EU and in NATO and in relations between them?
- And; what are the implications of changing transatlantic ties and emerging European security structures for Norway?
To explore if, how and why transatlantic security relations are changing and what this implies for emerging European security and defence, we study two main cases with much relevance to Norway: 1) Transatlantic security relations in Europe, with a particular focus on EU-US-NATO cooperation vis a vis Russia (defence and Ukraine) and 2) transatlantic relations in space.
