Making Europe Great Again?
After the presidential elections: Europe in a changing world
This event is organised by Leiden University.
At the end of November, the 'Cleveringa meetings' for Leiden alumni will take place in nearly 50 locations worldwide. On November 27, Monika Sie Dhian Ho will speak at the meeting in Leiden.
Now that Donald Trump has won the US elections, it is clear that Europe will face some major challenges. There is a big chance that the US will stop supporting Ukraine and leave the conflict to Europe. Trump has even suggested that the US will withdraw from NATO. Meanwhile, there is no sign that the war in the Middle East will end any time soon. What is clear, however, is that they will be focusing more on the Indo-Pacific region, for economic reasons but also in view of the further rise of China as an economic and military superpower. China presents itself as the champion of the Global South, but not without making some of its partners in Africa and Asia dependent on it.
How should Europe react to these developments? Should it prepare for a more independent role? Is such a role realistic? Or should it seek to strengthen NATO and keep America interested in its traditional North Atlantic links, with or without Britain? How should it position itself vis-à-vis the Global South? What strategy is advisable in a world where local conflicts can easily explode but are no longer defined by a simple East-West dichotomy?
About the speakers
Monika Sie Dhian Ho is General Director of the Clingendael Institute for international affairs. She is also vice-president of the State Committee on Demographic trends 2050 and a lecturer at the Netherlands School of Public Administration in The Hague. Earlier she was a lecturer in International Relations and International Political Economy at Leiden University, researcher with the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy WRR, and Director of the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, the social-democratic think tank in the Netherlands.
Jan Paternotte is a Member of Parliament for D66. He studied international relations and international law and is a specialist in American History. In Parliament, he is his party’s specialist on foreign affairs and Europe, foreign trade, higher education, and the media. He lives in Leiden.
Koen Petersen is a member of the Dutch Senate for the VVD. He has studied American studies and political science and has published extensively on American politics. The position of the Netherlands in the world is one of his other interests, and he is chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Development Aid.
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