ISA2022 Panel: US Grand Strategy and European ‘Strategic Autonomy’: Fostering A Transatlantic Debate

SUBSCRIBE
This ISA 2022 Annual Convention roundtable, which was sponsored by ISA's International Security Studies Section (ISSS), aimed "to build synergies between two central debates in the field of Security Studies now occurring on both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, analysts and scholars disagree on the prospects of a European “strategic autonomy,” namely the capacity of Europeans to autonomously provide for their own defense with little or no assistance from the US. In the United States, the grand strategy debate revolves around the contrasting positions of the proponents of ‘deep engagement’, for whom the United States should maintain current U.S. security commitments in Europe and elsewhere, and “restraint” scholars who argue that Europe is by far the easiest place for the United States to pull back from. Despite clear synergies, these two debates have so far largely proceeded in parallel silos. This roundtable aims to contribute advance the debates on the prospects for an autonomous European defense and for the continued US presence on the continent, and on their mutual interactions."