US Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Affairs

The United States and Translatlantic Programme, directed by Dr Dana Allin, Senior Fellow and Editor of Survival, will produce a major study on the theme of the purposes and limits of US power. It will examine the recaliibration in US global posture driven by economic constraints and an apprehension about overstretch and over-entanglement, looking at whether and how a more consolidated and discretionary US posture might be operationalised. The matters of what this would imply for the need of US allies to make greater provision for their own security, and what opportunities US competitors and antagonists might sense in such a scheme, will be analysed.