Global Horizons of the Atlantic Alliance: the Biden “Vaccine”

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Contemporary Europe-Sovremennaya Evropa Pub Date : 2021-10-31 DOI:10.15211/soveurope520211931

D. Danilov

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Abstract

The article examines the conceptual issues of the transatlantic relations under the American administration in 2021 and the renewal of the NATO strategy. The NATO summit in Brussels on June 14, 2021, which was attended by US President Joe Biden, was initially seen as a US “coming back” to Europe after a turbulent “trumpism” period in transatlantic relations. The summit communiqué defines the main lines of the alliance transformation in response to the growing challenges to Euro-Atlantic security, considering the main ones incoming from Russia and China, while also imposed by international terrorism. The analysis of the Summit decisions and the follow-up of Joe Biden's European meetings proves the alliance globalization trend, both in geopolitical and functional terms. The summit, while having adopted the NATO 2030 Agenda, decided to adopt a new strategic concept at the next meeting in Spain in 2022. The author argues that the unresolved transatlantic problems and the allies’ disagreements internally challenge the alliance “global” strategy. The “trusted leadership” the Biden administration sets against the “Trump Doctrine” undermines the allies’ ability to step up the European strategic autonomy project, including in relations with Russia and China, as well as in after-Brexit Euro-Atlantic rebalancing.

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大西洋联盟的全球视野:拜登"疫苗"

本文探讨了2021年美国政府领导下的跨大西洋关系和北约战略更新的概念问题。美国总统乔·拜登出席了2021年6月14日在布鲁塞尔举行的北约峰会，最初被视为美国在跨大西洋关系经历了动荡的“特朗普主义”时期后“重返”欧洲。峰会公报确定了联盟转型的主线，以应对欧洲-大西洋安全面临的日益严峻的挑战，考虑到来自俄罗斯和中国的主要挑战，同时也受到国际恐怖主义的影响。对峰会决定的分析和乔·拜登欧洲会议的后续行动证明了联盟的全球化趋势，无论是在地缘政治还是功能方面。峰会在通过了《北约2030年议程》的同时，决定在2022年西班牙的下一次会议上通过一个新的战略概念。作者认为，尚未解决的跨大西洋问题和盟国内部的分歧挑战了联盟的“全球”战略。拜登政府反对“特朗普主义”的“值得信赖的领导层”削弱了盟国加强欧洲战略自主项目的能力，包括在与俄罗斯和中国的关系中，以及在英国脱欧后的欧洲-大西洋再平衡中。

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Contemporary Europe-Sovremennaya Evropa AREA STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： “Contemporary Europe” – is academic journal founded in 2000 by Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences. 4 The journal published quarterly since 2000 under auspices of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Editorial board and editorial staff consider themselves as a mirror of contemporary Russian political, economical and social sciences in general, we eager to reflect in the journal’s pages current level of Russian-European relations, European Studies in Russia and European Union. “Contemporary Europe” focused on the problems of relations and cooperation between Russia and European Union, economical, political, cultural, religious situation in Russia and European countries. “Contemporary Europe” have managed to occupy a leading place in the community of experts on European Studies. Among our authors and members of Editorial Board – scholars, famous political scientists, experts in Foreign affairs. Our journal distributing throughout government institutions, embassies, research centers, libraries in Russia and abroad. The journal has nowadays more than 1000 thousand regular subscribers. The data on our readership convincingly show that the journal is actively and frequently used as a kind of text book by university students. Thus, visitors to public libraries might often come across outworn copies of the journal – evidence of its frequent (and regrettably rather rough) use by the readers. Book reviews occupy a significant part “Contemporary Europe” to presenting to our readers most of the publications of interest appearing in Russia and European Union.