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Among European diplomats and public figures in the 1990s, it was universally believed that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians was the central key to understanding the Middle East. It was their view that until Israel made peace with the Palestinians and enacted a two-state solution, the region would remain in constant chaos, a view that made Israel the subject of much European opprobrium. Since then, even through the second intifada and multiple wars with Hamas, Israel remains in largely the same position with the Palestinians as it was two decades ago. The broader Middle East, however, has changed dramatically, with direct results for European security. Europe has endured countless Islamist terror attacks and has seen a refugee crisis in Syria bring numerous migrants to its borders, redrawing the fault lines of its politics. In light of all of this, are European leaders finally changing their views of the Jewish state? This week’s podcast guest, Benjamin Haddad, the director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington, DC, thinks that many are. In a recent essay, Haddad argues that the reaction of leaders across Europe to Israel’s recent confrontation with Hamas revealed a significant shift in European thinking about the Jewish state. In conversation with Mosaic editor Jonathan Silver, he explains the change he’s seeing, and why it’s happening now. Musical selections are drawn from the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, op. 31a, composed by Paul Ben-Haim and performed by the ARC Ensemble.

Chris, Melanie, and Zack wade into the long-running debate on whether Europe can defend itself (chiefly from Russia), and how hard it should try. In a recent article, Barry Posen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology concludes that Europe is capable of conducting major military operations against a potential Russian attack, and that these capabilities serve as an important deterrent. But others doubt that Europe will ever be able to stand on its own without substantial support from the United States. The ultimate unknown, however, might revolve around how much autonomy the United States is willing to grant to key NATO allies — and how much autonomy they will demand in exchange for greater burden sharing. Zack offers up an atta-doctor/atta-deputy secretary of defense to newly confirmed Kath Hicks, while Chris praises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for showing the way on how schools can reopen. Melanie has a grievance against those who just can’t get along with others, even when they perform random acts of kindness, and Zack throws shade on people who refuse to put their names on major publications.   Links Barry R. Posen, “Europe Can Defend Itself,” IISS, December 3, 2020 Jeffrey Lightfoot and Olivier-Rémy Bel, “Sovereign Solidarity: France, the US, and Alliances in a Post-COVID World,” Future Europe Initiative, Atlantic Council, November 11, 2020 Adam Weinstein, “What the Afghanistan Study Group Final Report Missed,” Inkstick, February 11, 2021 Laura Meckler, “CDC Defends School Guidelines as Advocates Say They Make It too Hard to Reopen,” Washington Post, February 14, 2021 Evan Braden Montgomery, In the Hegemon's Shadow: Leading States and the Rise of Regional Powers (Cornell University Press, 2016) Joe Gould, "Senate confirms Hicks as DOD's No. 2," Defense News, February 8, 2021 Anonymous, "To Counter China's Rise, the U.S. Should Focus on Xi," Politico, January 28, 2021 Virginia Heffernan, “What Can You Do about the Trumpites Next Door?”, Los Angeles Times, February 5, 2021 Our World in Data, Coronavirus Vaccinations by Country “Americans and Germans Differ in Their Views of Each Other and the World,” Pew Research, March 9, 2020 Hans Van Der Burchard and America Hernandez, “US-German Tensions Over Russia-Backed Nord Stream 2 Pipeline,” Politico, January 21, 2021 “What Would Happen if America Left Europe to Fend for Itself?”, The Economist, March 14, 2019

Trump has rattled the transatlantic relationship, but is he as anomalous as he’s made out to be? In Paradise Lost (2019), Ben Haddad argues that the trends pulling America away from a position of liberal hegemony buttressing Europe’s security infrastructure are older and more profound. In it, he calls for Europe to wake up to a new world order marked by the return of History and grow its own strategic autonomy. A former senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and advisor to presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron, Ben is currently director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. Through his own journey and work, Ben encapsulates the kind of transatlantic conversation that Uncommon Decency will work to spark. Rate and review Uncommon Decency on Apple Podcasts, and send us your comments or questions at @UnDecencyPod or undecencypod@gmail.com.

Le podcast de LA CROIX sur l'Amérique de Donald Trump. En partenariat avec le programme Alliance–Columbia et French Morning. À la veille de la présidentielle américaine 2020, Benjamin Haddad, membre du think tank Atlantic Council à Washington, explique comment Donald Trump a transformé le parti républicain et quelles sont les divergences au sein du parti conservateur. ► Résumé de l'épisode : Entre élus soumis et militants comblés, Donald Trump a profondément transformé le "Grand Old Party" (GOP), famille politique d'Abraham Lincoln. Pourquoi ce président impopulaire dans l'opinion jouit-il toujours d'un soutien immense chez les sympathisants ? En cas d'échec, qui pourrait lui succéder ? À la veille de l'élection présidentielle américaine, Alexis Buisson, le correspondant de La Croix aux Etats-Unis, a posé ces questions à Benjamin Haddad, directeur du programme Future Europe Initiative au sein du think tank The Atlantic Council, à Washington. Également auteur de Le paradis perdu (Ed. Grasset), Benjamin Haddad explique comment la figure de Donald Trump fédère aujourd'hui le parti républicain, même si sa défaite pourrait faire resurgir les divergences politiques au sein du parti conservateur. ► A lire aussi sur le site et l'application du quotidien La Croix : ANALYSE – Deux mois avant l'élection, Donald Trump poursuit sa stratégie de la tension FAITS – Le cardinal Dolan priera lors de la convention du Parti républicain PORTRAIT – John Kasich, un républicain à la convention démocrate ► Autres sujets et personnalités reçues dans "C'est ça l'Amérique" : Joseph Stiglitz, prix Nobel de l'économie ; Joel Benenson, stratège des campagnes de Barack Obama et d'Hillary Clinton ; Roger Cohen, éditorialiste au New York Times ; Raphaël Liogier, sociologue et philosophe ; Claude Grunitzky, journaliste fondateur de la plateforme média True Africa… Parmi les sujets abordés : Les États qui font l'élection ; L'homme blanc, un mythe en péril ; Afro-américains, la lutte inachevée… ► Prochain épisode : Afro-Américains, combattre le racisme aux racines Alors que le policier Derek Chauvin et trois de ses collègues comparaissent  vendredi 11 septembre devant la justice pour leur responsabilité dans la mort de Georges Floyd, les manifestations contre les violences racistes se poursuivent. Claude Grunitzky, fondateur du magazine transculturel  "Trace", témoigne de la volonté des Afro-Américains à s'attaquer aux racines du racisme aux États-Unis. ► Retrouvez sur le site de La Croix notre dossier spécial Élection présidentielle américaine 2020. CREDITS : Responsable éditorial : Christophe de Galzain. Interview, prise de son et montage : Alexis Buisson. Suivi de production : Célestine Albert-Steward. Création musicale et habillage sonore : Emmanuel Viau. Mixage : Stéphane Letur. Voix : Laurence Szabason. Identité graphique : Olivier Balez. Rédaction en chef : Jérôme Chapuis. C'est ça l'Amérique est un podcast original de LA CROIX - septembre 2020. En partenariat avec le programme Alliance – Columbia et ses partenaires (Sciences-Po, Polytechnique, La Sorbonne), et French Morning, le premier web magazine des Français d'Amérique.

How is the relationship between the United States and Europe? What does the future of NATO look like? Is the rise of China the glue that NATO may need to renew political cohesion after years of soul-searching? In this episode of .think atlantic, IRI’s Thibault Muzergues and his guest Benjamin Haddad discuss the future of the transatlantic relationship. Benjamin Haddad is the Director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council, and author of a great book Le Paradis perdu (Lost paradise: Trump’s America and the end of European Illusions). Find Ben Haddad on Twitter at @benjaminhaddad Find Thibault Muzergues on Twitter at @tmuzergues

On this week's World Review – the first ever episode! – hosts Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Takin dial in from Berlin and Washington D.C. to discuss the events this week that might one day fill the pages of history books. Then they're joined by Benjamin Haddad, Director of the Future Europe Initiative, to discuss foreign policy in the age of Trump.If you are a New Statesman digital subscriber you can get advert free access to this podcast by visiting newstatesman.com/nssubscribers.Send us your You Ask Us questions at youaskus.co.uk.If you haven't signed up yet, visit newstatesman.com/subscribe to purchase your subscription. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Benjamin Haddad, director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council, joined us to discuss Europe's direction of travel, geopolitics, and strategic autonomy. Read his latest piece for the Washington Post on the coronavirus here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/12/america-first-is-wrong-approach-coronavirus/ The Europe Desk is a podcast from the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It brings together leading experts working on the most pertinent issues facing Europe and transatlantic relations today. Music by Sam Kyzivat and Breakmaster Cylinder Production by Alistair Somerville, Laura Rodriguez, Jonas Heering, Simon Close and Emily Traynor Mayrand Design by Sarah Diebboll Communications by Laura Rodriguez and Charlie Fritz https://cges.georgetown.edu/podcast Twitter and Instagram: @theeuropedesk If you would like a transcript of this episode, more information about the Center's events, or have any feedback, please email: theeuropedesk@gmail.com.

Benjamin Haddad and Alice Pannier join Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend on the latest episode of Brussels Sprouts to discuss France’s foreign policy and Emmanuel Macron’s latest comments on Russia. Haddad is the Director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council and the author of Paradise Lost: Europe in the World of Trump. Pannier is an Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and an Associate Research Fellow at the Security Studies Center of the French Institute of International Relations.

Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Rachel Rizzo take Brussels Sprouts on the road in this special edition of the podcast recorded “live” from the April 3rd NATO Engages conference hosted by the Atlantic Council, German Marshall Fund, and Munich Security Conference. This special episode shares the insights of some of the most prominent voices on transatlantic relations. Experts shared with us their thoughts on whether the alliance is in crisis, the most critical challenges facing NATO, and why they’re optimistic about NATO’s future. This episode features commentary (in order of appearance) from: · Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius · Stanislava Mladenova, a former member of the NATO international staff · Dr. Jim Goldgeier, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations · Damir Marusic, Executive Editor of The American Interest · Ambassador Sorin Ducaru, Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute and Former Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges at NATO · Ambassador Sandy Vershbow, former Deputy Secretary General of NATO and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia · Benjamin Haddad, Director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council · Dr. Tom Wright, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution · Ambassador Doug Lute, former U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO and a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs · Dr. Constanze Stelzenmüller, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution · Rachel Hoff, Policy Director at the Ronald Reagan Institute · Dr. Gale Mattox, a Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and Director of the Foreign & Domestic Policy Program at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies · Karlijn Jans, a Dutch defense expert · Camille Grand, Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment at NATO · Ambassador Azita Raji, former U.S. Ambassador to Sweden

Benjamin Haddad, Director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council and Celia Belin, Visiting Fellow at Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, join host Carol Castiel to discuss the origins, evolution and implications of the Yellow Vests or Gillets Jaunes movement that has rocked the political establishment in France.

Benjamin Haddad, Director of the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council, joins Dr. Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Rachel Rizzo to discuss France’s Yellow Vest movement.

Anna Wieslander, the Director of Northern Europe with the Future Europe Initiative at the Atlantic Council, speaks to Jim Townsend about this year's elections in Sweden, as well as the distinctly Nordic view of European defense.

Gérard Araud, Ambassador of France to the United States, joins the Atlantic Council’s Future Europe Initiative for a discussion on French leadership in a Post-Brexit Europe. Following the Ambassador’s remarks, Atlantic Council Senior Fellow Jeremie Gallon engages Ambassador Frederic Hof, Director of the Council’s Rafik Hariri Center on the Middle East; Ms. Laure Mandeville, Atlantic … Continue reading Ambassador of France to the United States Gérard Araud on French Leadership in a Post-Brexit Europe →

Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Future Europe Initiative. She served from 2012 to 2015 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia, responsible for policy toward Russia, the Black Sea, Balkans, and Caucasus regions and conventional arms control. From 2010 to 2012 she served as Senior Advisor to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe/Commander, US European Command, and as Special Advisor for the Secretary of Defense for the NATO Summit. Prior to that she was a Senior Fellow at the American Security Project, where she focused on stability and special operations, counterproliferation, and US-Asia policy. In 2008 to 2009, she served as Executive Director of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, which published the report World at Risk (Random House, 2008). From April 2001 to April 2008, she served as a Professional Staff Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Her issue areas included foreign and defense policy in Asia Pacific, Western Hemisphere, Special Operations Command (policy and budget oversight), foreign military assistance, peace and stability operations, the military effort to combat terrorism, counternarcotics programs, homeland defense, and export control policy. From 1997 to 2001 Farkas was a professor of international relations at the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College. She served in Bosnia with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 1996 to 1997, and was an election observer in Afghanistan in 2009. She has published numerous journal articles and opinion pieces and Fractured States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, Ethiopia, and Bosnia in the 1990s (Palgrave/St. Martin's Press, 2003, 2008). She speaks Hungarian and German; has studied French, Spanish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Hindi; and appears as a commentator on major television networks, including NBC, CNN, and Fox. Dr. Farkas obtained her MA and PhD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Aspen Institute Socrates Seminar advisory board.